Little Birch Elementary School

Little Birch Elementary School is a micro-enrollment elementary-level community in Sutton, West Virginia, one of the schools within Braxton County Schools. The school educates 83 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, West Virginia's public schools average about 283 students each, so Little Birch Elementary School sits 71% below that benchmark.

Little Birch Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Braxton County Schools, a district that works with 1,596 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Little Birch Elementary School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Braxton County as a whole.

On the resource side, Little Birch Elementary School shows 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting Little Birch Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Braxton County indicate median household income runs about $50,331, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Braxton County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,596 students), of which Little Birch Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Birch River Elementary School, roughly 6.1 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 47%: 158 students in 2018 compared to 83 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 98% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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