Sussex Central Elementary

Sussex Central Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in Stony Creek, Virginia, operated by Sussex County Public Schools, with 478 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Sussex County Public Schools, which oversees 3 schools and 1,047 students, Sussex Central Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sussex Central Elementary shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 22% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Sussex County as a whole is about 54% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sussex Central Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 73.1%, a residual of +12.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sussex County) logs that median household earnings sit near $63,530, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Sussex County runs 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,047 students), of which Sussex Central Elementary is one.

Sussex Central High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Sussex Central Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sussex Central Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 72.6%.

Sussex Central Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sussex Central Elementary has shrank 9%, going from 527 students in 2018 to 478 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 76% to 64%.

On this page, the feed for Sussex Central Elementary typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.