Glenwood School (K-8)

Glenwood School (K-8) is one of the high-enrollment K-5 schools in Princeton, West Virginia, one of the schools within Mercer County Schools, with 614 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 283 students per school, that is 117% above typical.

Mercer County Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 8,310 students. Glenwood School (K-8) is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Glenwood School (K-8) lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Mercer County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school employs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages about 12.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Mercer County put the typical household earns roughly $53,210 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Glenwood School (K-8) is one of 27 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 8,310 students).

Mountain Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glenwood School (K-8).

Glenwood School (K-8) operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 674 students in 2018 compared to 614 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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