Shoals Elementary School

Shoals Elementary School operates as an intimate K-5 school in Charleston, West Virginia, part of Kanawha County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 191 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, West Virginia's public schools average about 283 students each, so Shoals Elementary School sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

Kanawha County Schools runs 61 schools in total, collectively educating 23,085 students. Shoals Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Shoals Elementary School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 7% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting Shoals Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, census data for Kanawha County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,943 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Shoals Elementary School is one of 70 public schools in Kanawha County (combined enrollment of about 25,173 students).

Elk Elementary Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 227 students in 2018 compared to 191 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.