Davis Creek Elementary School

Davis Creek Elementary School is a tight-knit primary school in Barboursville, West Virginia, overseen by Cabell County Schools. The school instructs 235 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Cabell County Schools comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 11,188 students; Davis Creek Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Davis Creek Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest comes out to 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cabell County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,832 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Cabell County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,188 students), Davis Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Barboursville Middle School, around 2.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Davis Creek Elementary School.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Davis Creek Elementary School has contracted 15%, going from 277 students in 2018 to 235 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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