St. Charles Elementary

St. Charles Elementary is a rural-scale elementary campus in St Charles, Virginia, part of Lee County Public Schools. The school serves 110 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so St. Charles Elementary sits 78% smaller than that benchmark.

Lee County Public Schools runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 2,966 students. St. Charles Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, St. Charles Elementary reports that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, St. Charles Elementary has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at St. Charles Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lee County runs at roughly 94%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, St. Charles Elementary sits in the top 10% of Virginia schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 65.6%; actual is 88.7%, +23.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Lee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $41,827 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lee County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,966 students), St. Charles Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pennington Middle, around 3.6 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, St. Charles Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. St. Charles Elementary's enrollment has shrank 41% since 2018, when it stood at 188 (now 110). Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.