Stewartsville Elementary

Stewartsville Elementary is a K-5 school of modestly sized scale in Goodview, Virginia, overseen by Bedford County Public Schools, instructing 292 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 499.

Bedford County Public Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 8,930 students. Stewartsville Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Stewartsville Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 79%; the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 102% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bedford County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stewartsville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.3%, the actual is 67.8%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bedford County) shows that median household earnings sit near $78,937, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Bedford County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,930 students), Stewartsville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Goodview Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Stewartsville Elementary. On composite proficiency, Stewartsville Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 81.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Stewartsville Elementary's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 347 (now 292). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 90% to 79%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Stewartsville Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.