Ridgeview Elementary

Set in Sophia, West Virginia, Ridgeview Elementary is an expansive elementary school, run under Raleigh County Schools. It teaches 453 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 283 students per school, that is 60% bigger than typical.

Raleigh County Schools comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 10,350 students; Ridgeview Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Ridgeview Elementary lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Raleigh County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Raleigh County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,150 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Raleigh County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,350 students), of which Ridgeview Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Independence Middle School, around 2.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools.

The school occupies a countryside site.

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