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What tradition at Yorktown Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
599
Elementary
DISTRICT 580 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YORK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510415001824
Yorktown Elementary
131 Siege Ln, Yorktown, VA 23692 · (757) 898-0358 · York County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL599 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of Virginia public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
14.6:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
316 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
82.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
83.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 83.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 81.0% |
| 2022-23 | 77.0% | 80.0% |
% 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
76.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.7%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Yorktown Elementary
Yorktown Elementary's state test result (76.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorktown Elementary this school | 599 | 52.8% | 76.4% |
| Orange Elementary Orange | 621 | 60.4% | 66.6% |
| White Oaks Elementary Virginia Beach | 653 | 54.5% | 71.4% |
| Bethel Manor Elementary Langley A F B | 631 | 45.5% | 85.9% |
| A.G. Richardson Elementary Culpeper | 563 | 55.4% | 77.8% |
| North Elementary Prince George | 720 | 62.6% | 69.9% |
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 Yorktown Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.4% | #407 of 1,101 | #10 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #332 of 1,111 ▼ 1 | #10 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #295 of 1,111 ▼ 38 | #10 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 599 | #364 of 1,176 | #6 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #700 of 1,105 | #4 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.4% | #206 of 1,106 | #2 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.8% | #788 of 1,157 | #1 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.5% | #473 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
599
+22 (+4%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 567
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 599 | 41 | 14.6:1 | 53% (316) |
| 2023-24 | 598 | 33 | 18.1:1 | 58% (348) |
| 2022-23 | 613 | N/A | N/A | 60% (367) |
| 2020-21 | 577 | 41 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 662 | 39.3 | 16.8:1 | 48% (317) |
| 2015-16 | 713 | 42 | 17.0:1 | 44% (313) |
| 2010-11 | 626 | 37 | 16.9:1 | 41% (255) |
| 2000-01 | 386 | 31 | 12.4:1 | 55% (214) |
| 1990-91 | 567 | 35 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Yorktown Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (662 to 599); teachers up 4% (39.3 to 41).
About Yorktown Elementary
Yorktown Elementary runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Yorktown, Virginia. Enrollment totals 599 students across kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 20% larger than the 499-student average for elementary schools in Virginia.
Across its 19 schools, York County Public Schools enrolls 13,105 students. Yorktown Elementary is one of those schools.
No group is above 50% at Yorktown Elementary; the largest is White, at 45%. After that, the student body is 23% Black, 16% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of York County, the White share is about 68%. The diversity index for Yorktown Elementary is 70%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Yorktown Elementary reported 41 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.6:1. Elementary schools in Virginia have an average ratio of 13.8:1. Roughly 53% of students at Yorktown Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in York County average 35%.
Among Virginia public elementary schools, Yorktown Elementary outscored 59%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Yorktown Elementary is +2.6 points: 76.4% actual, 73.7% predicted.
Census data for York County show median household income comes to about $109,956, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. There are 19 public schools in the county, enrolling about 13,105, Yorktown Elementary among them.
Measured in a straight line, York High is about 0.4 miles from Yorktown Elementary. The five-mile area around Yorktown Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 70.7%, lower than Yorktown Elementary's 76.4%.
In the federal locale system, Yorktown Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 22 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
71,005
Census ACS
Median income
$109,956
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
13,105 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in York County Public Schools
- Grafton HighHigh · 1,235 students
- Tabb HighHigh · 1,153 students
- Tabb MiddleMiddle · 968 students
- York HighHigh · 947 students
- Grafton MiddleMiddle · 937 students
- Bruton HighHigh · 723 students
Other schools in Yorktown
- Grafton HighHigh · 1,235 students
- Tabb HighHigh · 1,153 students
- Tabb MiddleMiddle · 968 students
- York HighHigh · 947 students
- Grafton MiddleMiddle · 937 students
- Yorktown MiddleMiddle · 717 students
Other Yorktown Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Yorktown Elementary. Yorktown Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Yorktown Elementary SchoolYorktown, IN · 649 students
- Yorktown ElementaryBowie, MD · 396 students
- Yorktown Elementary SchoolYORKTOWN, TX · 278 students
Nearby schools
- York High0.4 mi · 947
- York River Academy1.9 mi · 72
- Yorktown Middle1.9 mi · 717
- Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary2.0 mi · 549
- Woodside High2.1 mi · 1,723
- Grafton Middle3.1 mi · 937
Frequently asked questions
About Yorktown ElementaryHow many students attend Yorktown Elementary?
Yorktown Elementary enrolls approximately 599 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Yorktown Elementary serve?
Yorktown Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Yorktown Elementary have?
Yorktown Elementary employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Yorktown Elementary?
At Yorktown Elementary, the student body is approximately 45% White, 14% Hispanic, 23% Black, 3% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Is Yorktown Elementary public or private?
Yorktown Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by York County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.