Kanawha Elementary School

Kanawha Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Davisville, West Virginia, operated by Wood County Schools, with 265 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Wood County Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 11,098 students. Kanawha Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Kanawha Elementary School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Kanawha Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting Kanawha Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wood County indicate median household income runs about $57,810, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Wood County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,098 students), of which Kanawha Elementary School is one.

Mineral Wells Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 295 students in 2018 compared to 265 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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