Lavalette Elementary School

Located at 1150 Beech Fork Road, in Lavalette, West Virginia, Lavalette Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves 245 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Wayne County Schools.

Wayne County Schools comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 5,953 students; Lavalette Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Lavalette Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting Lavalette Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, Wayne County reports that median household income runs about $58,878, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Wayne County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,953 students), of which Lavalette Elementary School is one.

Buffalo Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Lavalette Elementary School.

Lavalette Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Lavalette Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 245). Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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