Barrett Elementary

Barrett Elementary, a mid-tier primary school in Arlington, Virginia, operated by Arlington County Public Schools, educates 500 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Arlington County Public Schools comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 27,950 students; Barrett Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Barrett Elementary logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 24% White, 9% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at Barrett Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Arlington County's rate of about 31%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barrett Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.6%, the actual is 58.8%, a residual of -13.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Arlington County) logs that median household earnings sit near $142,114, roughly 77% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Arlington County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,950 students), Barrett Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Arlington Community High, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Barrett Elementary at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 71.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 539 students in 2018 compared to 500 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 53% to 57%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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