Cheat Lake Elementary School

Cheat Lake Elementary School is a sprawling K-5 school in Morgantown, West Virginia, overseen by Monongalia County Schools. The school teaches 754 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 166% above the state mean of about 283.

Monongalia County Schools runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 11,193 students. Cheat Lake Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Cheat Lake Elementary School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting Cheat Lake Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Monongalia County put median household earnings sit near $65,346, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Monongalia County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,438 students), of which Cheat Lake Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Eastwood Elementary School, roughly 3.4 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cheat Lake Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 850 (now 754).

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