Spiller Elementary

Spiller Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Wytheville, Virginia, operated by Wythe County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 615 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 499.

Within Wythe County Public Schools, which oversees 12 schools and 3,734 students, Spiller Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Spiller Elementary reports that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

On the resource side, Spiller Elementary reports 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at Spiller Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Spiller Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Wythe County) records that median household income runs about $57,745, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Spiller Elementary is one of 14 public schools in Wythe County (combined enrollment of about 3,734 students).

Scott Memorial Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Spiller Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Spiller Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 80.3%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 683 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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