Alum Creek Elementary School

Alum Creek Elementary School, a cozy primary school in South Charleston, West Virginia, run under Kanawha County Schools, hosts 151 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in West Virginia, which averages around 283 students.

Across the 61 schools in Kanawha County Schools (23,085 students total), Alum Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Alum Creek Elementary School lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, Alum Creek Elementary School lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kanawha County shows median household earnings sit near $60,943, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Kanawha County runs 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,173 students), of which Alum Creek Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Midway Elementary School, roughly 3.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Alum Creek Elementary School.

Alum Creek Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alum Creek Elementary School has ticked down 20%, going from 188 students in 2018 to 151 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 92% across the same window.

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