Ridgedale Elementary School

As a well-populated elementary school in Morgantown, West Virginia, Ridgedale Elementary School hosts 536 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Monongalia County Schools. By comparison, West Virginia's public schools average about 283 students each, so Ridgedale Elementary School sits 89% above that benchmark.

Monongalia County Schools comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 11,193 students; Ridgedale Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Ridgedale Elementary School shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting Ridgedale Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Monongalia County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,346, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Monongalia County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,438 students), Ridgedale Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mountainview Elementary School, around 4.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ridgedale Elementary School has climbed 16%, going from 464 students in 2018 to 536 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 92% to 96%.

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