Swift Creek Elementary

Swift Creek Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Midlothian, Virginia, one of the schools within Chesterfield County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 724 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 45% above the state mean of about 499.

Within Chesterfield County Public Schools, which oversees 65 schools and 64,194 students, Swift Creek Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Swift Creek Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% Black, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Chesterfield County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Swift Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.6%, the actual is 84.8%, a residual of +4.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Chesterfield County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,931 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chesterfield County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students), Swift Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Clover Hill High, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Swift Creek Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 81.2%.

Swift Creek Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 872 students in 2018 compared to 724 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 71% to 64%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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