Enrollment
366
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000428
Beech Tree Elementary
3401 Beechtree Ln, Falls Church, VA 22042 · (703) 531-2600 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL366 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
260 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 66%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 47 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
63.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -3.0pp since 2022
Math
66.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 60.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.0% | 67.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Beech Tree Elementary
Beech Tree Elementary's state test result (57.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beech Tree Elementary this school | 366 | 71.0% | 57.5% |
| Woodburn Elementary Falls Church | 483 | 67.9% | 48.8% |
| Suella G. Ellis Elementary Manassas | 403 | 71.2% | 60.4% |
| Sharon C. McAuliffe Elementary Woodbridge | 379 | 69.9% | 79.0% |
| Enterprise Elementary Woodbridge | 414 | 70.5% | 66.0% |
| Kerrydale Elementary Woodbridge | 298 | 72.8% | 69.9% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Beech Tree Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #878 of 1,101 | #108 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #755 of 1,111 ▲ 73 | #103 of 136 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #790 of 1,111 ▼ 11 | #102 of 136 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 366 | #886 of 1,176 | #132 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #179 of 1,105 | #21 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.4% | #675 of 1,106 | #121 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.0% | #647 of 1,157 | #34 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.4% | #659 of 759 | #90 of 110 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
366
+15 (+4%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 371
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 10.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 366 | 30.4 | 12.0:1 | 71% (260) |
| 2023-24 | 417 | 30.3 | 13.8:1 | 65% (269) |
| 2022-23 | 382 | 28.3 | 13.5:1 | 66% (252) |
| 2020-21 | 351 | 33 | 10.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 379 | 30.5 | 12.4:1 | 62% (235) |
| 2015-16 | 388 | 30 | 12.9:1 | 57% (223) |
| 2010-11 | 477 | 38 | 12.6:1 | 53% (254) |
| 2000-01 | 427 | 31 | 13.8:1 | 35% (150) |
| 1990-91 | 371 | 20 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Beech Tree Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (379 to 366); teachers unchanged (30.5 to 30.4).
About Beech Tree Elementary
Beech Tree Elementary is a small elementary school in Fairfax County Public Schools, located in Falls Church, Virginia. The school has 366 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. The school is 27% below the average for elementary schools in Virginia.
Enrollment across the 199 schools in Fairfax County Public Schools totals 179,323 students.
Of every 100 students at Beech Tree Elementary, about 62 are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 22% White, 9% Asian, and 4% Black. Fairfax County's residents are about 18% Hispanic, 44 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Beech Tree Elementary scores 55%.
For every teacher at Beech Tree Elementary, there are about 12.0 students; the school has 30.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 71%. Among public schools in Fairfax County, the average eligibility rate is 37%.
Beech Tree Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 18% of Virginia public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Beech Tree Elementary is -11.3 points: 57.5% actual, 68.8% predicted.
For the population of Fairfax County, median household income comes to about $153,637, roughly 65% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fairfax County's 222 public schools enroll about 174,475 students and include Beech Tree Elementary.
Measured in a straight line, Westlawn Elementary is about 0.7 miles from Beech Tree Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Beech Tree Elementary comes in 6th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 4%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.6:1 in 2020-21, and 12.0:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for Beech Tree Elementary is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Fairfax County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,147,837
Census ACS
Median income
$153,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
222
174,475 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfax County Public Schools
- Lake Braddock SecondaryHigh · 4,411 students
- Robinson SecondaryHigh · 3,710 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- Chantilly HighHigh · 2,937 students
- West Springfield HighHigh · 2,799 students
- Westfield HighHigh · 2,737 students
Other schools in Falls Church
- Justice HighHigh · 2,357 students
- Marshall HighHigh · 2,200 students
- Falls Church HighHigh · 2,170 students
- Longfellow MiddleMiddle · 1,226 students
- Jackson MiddleMiddle · 991 students
- Meridian HighHigh · 893 students
Nearby schools
- Westlawn Elementary0.7 mi · 789
- Sleepy Hollow Elementary0.7 mi · 475
- Mason Crest Elementary1.1 mi · 684
- Belvedere Elementary1.2 mi · 606
- Falls Church High1.5 mi · 2,170
- Columbia Elementary1.7 mi · 377
Frequently asked questions
About Beech Tree ElementaryHow many students attend Beech Tree Elementary?
Beech Tree Elementary enrolls approximately 366 students in grades PK-05.
Is Beech Tree Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Beech Tree Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Beech Tree Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Beech Tree Elementary is approximately 12.0:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Beech Tree Elementary?
At Beech Tree Elementary, the student body is approximately 22% White, 62% Hispanic, 4% Black, 9% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Beech Tree Elementary public or private?
Beech Tree Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.