Springfield Park Elementary

Set in Glen Allen, Virginia, Springfield Park Elementary is a mid-tier primary school, operated by Henrico County Public Schools. It enrolls 652 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Springfield Park Elementary sits 31% bigger than that benchmark.

Henrico County Public Schools comprises 69 schools with combined enrollment of 51,044 students; Springfield Park Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Springfield Park Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Asian, 15% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Springfield Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Henrico County's rate of about 67%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Springfield Park 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 63.5%; this one delivers 78.5%, a residual of +15.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Henrico County indicate median household income runs about $88,783, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Henrico County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,753 students), Springfield Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Echo Lake Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Springfield Park Elementary. On composite proficiency, Springfield Park Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 77.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Springfield Park Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 656 students in 2018 to 652 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 52% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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