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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Drewry Mason Elementary

Ridgeway, Virginia

NCES ID
510192000855
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Drewry Mason Elementary is a public primary school in Ridgeway, Virginia, run by Henry County Public Schools. It enrols 404 students — the 50289th largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

404students

50289th nationally, tied with 142

Teachers

24.0FTE

55524th nationally, tied with 2,299

Students per teacher

16.8students

62972nd nationally, tied with 723

Free or reduced-price lunch

94.8%percent

8942nd nationally, tied with 71

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Henry County Public Schools

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Bassett High1,107 students
  2. 2Magna Vista High1,104 students
  3. 3Fieldale-Collinsville Middle805 students
  4. 4Laurel Park Middle786 students
  5. 5Meadow View Elementary674 students
  6. 6G.W. Carver Elementary461 students
  7. 7Drewry Mason Elementary404 students
  8. 8Axton Elementary364 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Virginia median across 2,163 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−30.2%
  • Teachers−38.5%
  • Students per teacher+20.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+43.3%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.