Walnut Hill Elementary

Located at 300 S Boulevard, in Petersburg, Virginia, Walnut Hill Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school that serves 574 students (grades K through 5), operated by Petersburg City Public Schools.

Petersburg City Public Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,582 students. Walnut Hill Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Walnut Hill Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 4% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 94% of students at Walnut Hill Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Walnut Hill Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 62.6%; actual is 36.9%, a gap of -25.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Petersburg city put median household income runs about $50,698, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. In all, Petersburg city runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,582 students), of which Walnut Hill Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Vernon Johns Middle, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Walnut Hill Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walnut Hill Elementary has ticked up 12%, going from 512 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 92% to 85%.

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