Smithville Elementary

Set in Smithville, West Virginia, Smithville Elementary is a rural-scale K-5 school, operated by Ritchie County Schools. It works with 90 students across grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 283 students per school, that is 68% leaner than typical.

Smithville Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Ritchie County Schools, a district that educates 1,131 students overall.

Demographically, Smithville Elementary shows that nearly all students (94%) are White. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Ritchie County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Ritchie County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $50,582 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Ritchie County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,131 students), Smithville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pleasant Hill School, around 8.8 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Smithville Elementary has contracted 24%, going from 119 students in 2018 to 90 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 99% to 94% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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