Beech Tree Elementary

Beech Tree Elementary is a primary school of small scale in Falls Church, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, enrolling 366 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 27% smaller than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Fairfax County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 179,323 students; Beech Tree Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beech Tree Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 22% White, 9% Asian, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Beech Tree Elementary records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at Beech Tree Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Beech Tree Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.5%.

Around the school, census data for Fairfax County shows median household income runs about $153,637, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Beech Tree Elementary is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

The closest other public school is Westlawn Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Beech Tree Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 379 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 53% to 62%.

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