Road Branch Elementary & Middle School

Road Branch Elementary & Middle School is one of the modestly sized elementary campuss in Cyclone, West Virginia, one of the schools within Wyoming County Schools, with 131 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, West Virginia's public schools average about 283 students each, so Road Branch Elementary & Middle School sits 54% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 14 schools in Wyoming County Schools (3,346 students total), Road Branch Elementary & Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Road Branch Elementary & Middle School shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average.

In the broader community, census data for Wyoming County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,440 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. In all, Wyoming County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,346 students), of which Road Branch Elementary & Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Berlin McKinney Elementary School, roughly 5.2 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Road Branch Elementary & Middle School's enrollment has contracted 29% since 2018, when it stood at 185 (now 131). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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