St. Paul Elementary

St. Paul Elementary, a mid-sized primary school in St Paul, Virginia, one of the schools within Wise County Public Schools, serves 514 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Wise County Public Schools comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 5,779 students; St. Paul Elementary is among them.

On demographics, St. Paul Elementary logs that nearly all students (92%) are White. Other groups include 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, St. Paul Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 64.5%; St. Paul Elementary posts 97.6%, +33.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wise County shows median household income runs about $52,943, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wise County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,779 students), of which St. Paul Elementary is one.

Castlewood High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around St. Paul Elementary. On composite proficiency, St. Paul Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 75.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 122%: 232 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 97% to 92% over that span.

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