Midland Trail Elementary School

Midland Trail Elementary School operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in Diamond, West Virginia, run under Kanawha County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 158 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 283.

Kanawha County Schools runs 61 schools in total, collectively educating 23,085 students. Midland Trail Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Midland Trail Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school records 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Kanawha County indicate median household income runs about $60,943, 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), Midland Trail Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Riverside High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Midland Trail Elementary School has fell 31%, going from 230 students in 2018 to 158 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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