Back Creek Valley Elementary School

Back Creek Valley Elementary School is a small elementary school in Hedgesville, West Virginia, one of the schools in Berkeley County Schools. It enrolls 149 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 2. That is 47% below the average of about 283 students for elementary schools in West Virginia.

Back Creek Valley Elementary School is run by Berkeley County Schools, whose 32 schools enroll 20,006 students.

By race and ethnicity, Back Creek Valley Elementary School is 91% White. Other groups include 4% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 81% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 16%.

Back Creek Valley Elementary School has 10.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.1:1. Elementary schools in West Virginia have an average ratio of 12.9:1.

In Berkeley County, the median household earns about $80,815 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Across Berkeley County, 33 public schools serve about 20,006 students.

Of the public schools around it, Back Creek Valley Elementary School is closest to Gerrardstown Elementary School, about 3.8 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 3.

Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 150 to 149, a small change.

This page is set up for the Back Creek Valley Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.