Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences

Located at 6245 Leesburg Pike, in Falls Church, Virginia, Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences is a moderately sized elementary campus that works with 539 students (grades 3 through 5), run under Fairfax County Public Schools.

Across the 199 schools in Fairfax County Public Schools (179,323 students total), Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 12% White, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfax County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 64.3%; this one comes in at 46.7%, -17.6 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Arlington Traditional, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 576 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025.

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