Piedmont Year-Round Education
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (44).
Test scores
EDFacts (federal) 2020-21 . % Proficient (SY 20-21)What this means: On the EDFacts (federal), West Virginia's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all West Virginia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 28.
Where Piedmont Year-Round Education ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In West Virginia | In Kanawha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #317 of 350 | #36 of 41 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #319 of 348 | #35 of 41 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 279 | #176 of 417 | #16 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #22 of 285 | #3 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #8 of 286 | #2 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.5% | #42 of 260 | #3 of 26 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 279 | 26 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 289 | 24 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 258 | 24 | 10.8:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 339 | 26 | 13.0:1 | 76% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 390 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 84% (328) |
| 2015-16 | 355 | 23 | 15.4:1 | 81% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 376 | 17 | 22.1:1 | 80% (302) |
| 2000-01 | 343 | 29 | 11.8:1 | 81% (277) |
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (390 to 279); teachers up 8% (24 to 26).
About Piedmont Year-Round Education
Piedmont Year-Round Education is a mid-sized elementary school for students in Charleston, West Virginia. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 279 students.
Kanawha County Schools has a total of 65 schools and 23,485 students, Piedmont Year-Round Education among them.
About 48% of students at Piedmont Year-Round Education are Black, the largest single group. The school is also 35% White, 14% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 5%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 62, compared with 70 nationally.
The school has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 10.7 students per teacher. Elementary schools in West Virginia have an average ratio of 12.9:1.
Looking at the county, Kanawha County, the median household earns about $60,943 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting Piedmont Year-Round Education, Kanawha County has 70 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Holz Elementary School, is about 1.6 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 279, from 339 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 13.0:1 to 10.7:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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