Grandview Elementary School

Grandview Elementary School, a small primary school in Charleston, West Virginia, operated by KANAWHA COUNTY SCHOOLS, instructs 134 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 283 students per school, that is 53% leaner than typical.

KANAWHA COUNTY SCHOOLS comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 400 students; Grandview Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Grandview Elementary School shows that 61% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 19% Black, 19% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Kanawha County put the typical household earns roughly $60,943 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Kanawha County's 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,173 students), Grandview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grandview Annex, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Grandview Elementary School has shrank 39%, going from 220 students in 2018 to 134 in 2024. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 25% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2024.

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