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Enrollment
655
Elementary
DISTRICT 522 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUGUSTA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510030000137
Wilson Elementary
127 Woodrow Wilson Ave, Fishersville, VA 22939 · (540) 245-5040 · Augusta County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL655 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
537 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 49 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
63.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
69.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 69.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 63.0% |
| 2022-23 | 65.0% | 61.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
67.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wilson Elementary
Wilson Elementary's state test result (67.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Elementary this school | 655 | 82.0% | 67.6% |
| Tomahawk Elementary Lynchburg | 667 | 76.9% | 73.5% |
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary Louisa | 672 | 88.8% | 81.8% |
| Yellow Branch Elementary Rustburg | 584 | 78.9% | 74.5% |
| Amelia County Elementary Amelia Court House | 778 | 84.2% | 53.3% |
| Trevilians Elementary Louisa | 546 | 79.3% | 84.4% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wilson Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Augusta County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.6% | #658 of 1,101 | #4 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #693 of 1,111 ▲ 77 | #5 of 9 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #786 of 1,111 ▼ 29 | #8 of 9 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 655 | #253 of 1,176 | #3 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #754 of 1,105 | #2 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.5% | #699 of 1,106 | #1 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.0% | #479 of 1,157 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.9% | #735 of 759 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
655
-10 (-2%) vs 2020
+115% since 1990-91, when it was 305
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 16.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 655 | 44 | 14.9:1 | 82% (537) |
| 2023-24 | 660 | 42 | 15.7:1 | 65% (428) |
| 2022-23 | 647 | 45 | 14.4:1 | 67% (436) |
| 2020-21 | 665 | 41 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 661 | 43.2 | 15.3:1 | 44% (288) |
| 2015-16 | 698 | 46 | 15.2:1 | 41% (288) |
| 2010-11 | 398 | 24 | 16.6:1 | 44% (176) |
| 2000-01 | 312 | 24 | 13.0:1 | 30% (95) |
| 1990-91 | 305 | 19 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilson Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (661 to 655); teachers up 2% (43.2 to 44).
About Wilson Elementary
Wilson Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school found in Fishersville, Virginia. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 655 students. On average, elementary schools in Virginia enroll around 499, and this school is 31% above that mark.
Augusta County Public Schools has 20 schools; together they serve 10,742 students.
The student body at Wilson Elementary is 66% White. The school is also 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 89%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
The school had 44 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1. Across elementary schools in Virginia, the average ratio is 13.8:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 82%. The gap from the 67% average for public schools in Augusta County is 15 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Wilson Elementary lands at C+, ahead of 44% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Schools in Virginia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 65.8%. Wilson Elementary scores 67.6%.
In Augusta County, home to about 78,033 people, the median household earns about $82,049 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Wilson Elementary shares Augusta County with 24 other public schools.
Wilson Elementary's nearest public school is Wilson Middle (about 0.4 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Wilson Elementary. On state test proficiency, Wilson Elementary ranks 6th in a group of 6 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Wilson Elementary is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
In 2020-21, Wilson Elementary enrolled 665; in 2024-25, 655. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.2:1 in 2020-21, and 14.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Augusta County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
78,033
Census ACS
Median income
$82,049
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
10,742 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Augusta County Public Schools
- Wilson Memorial HighHigh · 837 students
- Edward G. Clymore ElementaryElementary · 803 students
- Fort Defiance HighHigh · 731 students
- Riverheads ElementaryElementary · 714 students
- Stuarts Draft HighHigh · 668 students
- Stuarts Draft ElementaryElementary · 646 students
Other schools in Fishersville
- Wilson Memorial HighHigh · 837 students
- Wilson MiddleMiddle · 641 students
- Shenandoah Valley Governor's SchoolElementary
- Valley AcademyElementary
- Valley Career and Technical CenterElementary
- Woodrow Wilson Rehab CtrCombined
Other Wilson Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 24 states are named Wilson Elementary. Wilson Elementary is the 5th largest of the 60.
- WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSANFORD, FL · 896 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 756 students
- Wilson ElementaryFresno, CA · 669 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolMurfreesboro, TN · 666 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 635 students
Nearby schools
- Wilson Middle0.4 mi · 641
- Wilson Memorial High0.5 mi · 837
- Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind Elementary4.7 mi · 7
- Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind Middle4.7 mi · 16
- Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind4.7 mi · 65
- Stuarts Draft Elementary4.8 mi · 646
Frequently asked questions
About Wilson ElementaryHow large is Wilson Elementary?
Wilson Elementary enrolls approximately 655 students in grades PK-05.
Is Wilson Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wilson Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Wilson Elementary have?
Wilson Elementary employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Wilson Elementary?
Student demographics at Wilson Elementary are roughly 66% White, 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Wilson Elementary?
Wilson Elementary is overseen by Augusta County Public Schools in Augusta County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.