Petersburg Elementary School

Set in Petersburg, West Virginia, Petersburg Elementary School is a sizable elementary campus, operated by Grant County Schools. It educates 644 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 128% bigger than the state mean of about 283.

Grant County Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,617 students. Petersburg Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Petersburg Elementary School lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Grant County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Petersburg Elementary School logs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting Petersburg Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Grant County indicate median household income runs about $62,361, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Grant County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,617 students), Petersburg Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Petersburg High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 657 students in 2018 compared to 644 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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