Snow Creek Elementary

Snow Creek Elementary is one of the small elementary campuss in Penhook, Virginia, part of Franklin County Public Schools, with 226 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Snow Creek Elementary sits 55% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 14 schools in Franklin County Public Schools (6,540 students total), Snow Creek Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Snow Creek Elementary logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% multiracial, 7% Black, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Snow Creek Elementary lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Snow Creek Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Snow Creek Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 64.5%; this one delivers 83.4%, a residual of +18.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,849 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,540 students), of which Snow Creek Elementary is one.

Sontag Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Snow Creek Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Snow Creek Elementary has grew 11%, going from 204 students in 2018 to 226 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 83% to 75%.

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