Barcroft Elementary

Located at 625 S Wakefield St, in Arlington, Virginia, Barcroft Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community that serves 495 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Arlington County Public Schools.

Within Arlington County Public Schools, which oversees 36 schools and 27,950 students, Barcroft Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Barcroft Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 27% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Barcroft Elementary logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Arlington County's rate of about 31%.

After controlling for student poverty, Barcroft Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.5%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, Arlington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $142,114 per year, about 77% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Arlington County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,950 students), Barcroft Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Randolph Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Barcroft Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Barcroft Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 15% since 2018, when it stood at 429 (now 495). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 50% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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