New Martinsville School

As a large elementary campus in New Martinsville, West Virginia, New Martinsville School works with 837 students from grades pre-K through 8, overseen by Wetzel County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 283 students per school, that is 196% above typical.

Across the 8 schools in Wetzel County Schools (2,189 students total), New Martinsville School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, New Martinsville School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wetzel County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,836 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Wetzel County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,189 students), New Martinsville School is one campus in the mix.

River High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 892 students in 2018 compared to 837 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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