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Alumni: what's one memory from Spotswood Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
468
Elementary
DISTRICT 522 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISONBURG CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510186000785
Spotswood Elementary
400 Mountain View Drive, Harrisonburg, VA 22801 · (540) 434-3429 · Harrisonburg city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL468 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Virginia public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
392 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 5 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
51.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +12.0pp since 2022
Math
58.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +13.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 13 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 40.0% |
| 2022-23 | 39.0% | 45.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
40.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 65% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Spotswood Elementary
Spotswood Elementary's state test result (40.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spotswood Elementary this school | 468 | 83.8% | 40.9% |
| Virginia Avenue Charlotte Dehart Elementary Winchester | 415 | 83.6% | 50.5% |
| Woodley Hills Elementary Alexandria | 495 | 83.6% | 53.0% |
| Keister Elementary Harrisonburg | 475 | 85.1% | 62.6% |
| Stone Spring Elementary Harrisonburg | 554 | 84.8% | 45.9% |
| Waterman Elementary Harrisonburg | 557 | 87.1% | 46.8% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Spotswood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Harrisonburg city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #1,058 of 1,101 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #916 of 1,111 ▲ 150 | #4 of 7 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #999 of 1,111 ▲ 72 | #4 of 7 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 468 | #658 of 1,176 | #6 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #613 of 1,105 | #3 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.1% | #587 of 1,106 | #5 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.8% | #443 of 1,157 | #6 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #260 of 324 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
468
+17 (+4%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 624
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 15.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 468 | 33 | 14.2:1 | 84% (392) |
| 2023-24 | 463 | 32 | 14.5:1 | 81% (375) |
| 2022-23 | 448 | 39 | 11.5:1 | 79% (356) |
| 2020-21 | 451 | 29 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 38.6 | 11.8:1 | 97% (443) |
| 2015-16 | 445 | 39 | 11.4:1 | 87% (387) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 30 | 12.8:1 | 96% (368) |
| 2000-01 | 405 | 40 | 10.1:1 | 71% (289) |
| 1990-91 | 624 | 41 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spotswood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (455 to 468); teachers down 14% (38.6 to 33).
About Spotswood Elementary
Spotswood Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Harrisonburg, Virginia, under Harrisonburg City Public Schools. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 468 students.
A total of 10 schools make up Harrisonburg City Public Schools, with 6,652 students enrolled.
More than half of the students at Spotswood Elementary are Hispanic (57%). The rest of enrollment is 26% White, 8% multiracial, and 7% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Harrisonburg city's population at about 24%. The diversity index for Spotswood Elementary is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at Spotswood Elementary totals 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. It is about the same as the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Spotswood Elementary is about 84%.
Spotswood Elementary holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 3% of Virginia public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 40.9%, is 24.4 points below the 65.3% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Harrisonburg city show that the median household earns about $62,254 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Across Harrisonburg city, 13 public schools serve about 6,934 students.
A public school about 1.2 miles away, Waterman Elementary, is the closest to Spotswood Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Spotswood Elementary. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Spotswood Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 17 students, from 451 to 468. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.6:1 to 14.2:1.
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Harrisonburg city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
51,392
Census ACS
Median income
$62,254
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
6,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harrisonburg City Public Schools
- Rocktown HighHigh · 1,011 students
- Harrisonburg HighHigh · 998 students
- Thomas Harrison MiddleMiddle · 771 students
- Skyline MiddleMiddle · 738 students
- Bluestone ElementaryElementary · 566 students
- Waterman ElementaryElementary · 557 students
Other schools in Harrisonburg
- Rocktown HighHigh · 1,011 students
- Harrisonburg HighHigh · 998 students
- Thomas Harrison MiddleMiddle · 771 students
- Skyline MiddleMiddle · 738 students
- Bluestone ElementaryElementary · 566 students
- Waterman ElementaryElementary · 557 students
Other Spotswood Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Spotswood Elementary. Spotswood Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Spotswood ElementaryFredericksburg, VA · 526 students
Nearby schools
- Waterman Elementary1.2 mi · 557
- Keister Elementary1.3 mi · 475
- Skyline Middle1.3 mi · 738
- Smithland Elementary1.3 mi · 514
- Thomas Harrison Middle1.8 mi · 771
- Stone Spring Elementary2.0 mi · 554
Frequently asked questions
About Spotswood ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Spotswood Elementary?
Spotswood Elementary enrolls approximately 468 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Spotswood Elementary serve?
Spotswood Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Spotswood Elementary?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Spotswood Elementary.
How diverse is Spotswood Elementary?
Spotswood Elementary reports a student body of 26% White, 57% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Spotswood Elementary in?
Spotswood Elementary is part of Harrisonburg City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.