Public school / Primary
Harding Avenue Elementary
Blacksburg, Virginia
- NCES ID
- 510252001024
- District
- Montgomery County Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Harding Avenue Elementary is a public primary school in Blacksburg, Virginia, run by Montgomery County Public Schools. It enrols 296 students — the 66142nd largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.
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
296
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
13.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
17.6%
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.
Within Montgomery 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.
- 1Blacksburg High1,321 students
- 2Christiansburg High1,116 students
- 3Blacksburg Middle946 students
- 4Christiansburg Middle752 students
- 5Falling Branch Elementary576 students
- 6Auburn Elementary558 students
- 7Prices Fork Elementary440 students
- 8Christiansburg Elementary407 students
- Enrollment−48.9%
- Teachers−43.6%
- Students per teacher−3.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−73.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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