Panther Creek Elementary School

Panther Creek Elementary School, an intimate primary school in Nettie, West Virginia, one of the schools within Nicholas County Schools, serves 211 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in West Virginia, which averages around 283 students.

Nicholas County Schools runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 3,215 students. Panther Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Panther Creek Elementary School records that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Nicholas County shows median household earnings sit near $54,639, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Panther Creek Elementary School is one of 14 public schools in Nicholas County (combined enrollment of about 3,215 students).

Nearest neighbor: Nicholas County Career and Technical Center, around 7.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Panther Creek Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 279 students in 2018 compared to 211 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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