Enrollment
391
Elementary
DISTRICT 636 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510313001285
Bel Air Elementary
14151 Ferndale Road, Woodbridge, VA 22193 · (703) 670-4050 · Prince William County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL391 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of Virginia public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
15.8:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
276 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 | 24 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
43%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
65.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +4.0pp since 2022
Math
67.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 7 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 61.0% | 60.0% |
% 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
61.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.9%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% 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 Bel Air Elementary
Bel Air Elementary's state test result (61.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bel Air Elementary this school | 391 | 70.6% | 61.8% |
| Suella G. Ellis Elementary Manassas | 403 | 71.2% | 60.4% |
| Dale City Elementary Woodbridge | 443 | 71.1% | 81.8% |
| Enterprise Elementary Woodbridge | 414 | 70.5% | 66.0% |
| Featherstone Elementary Woodbridge | 452 | 70.6% | 81.9% |
| 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 Bel Air Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Prince William County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #797 of 1,101 | #54 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #747 of 1,111 ▲ 164 | #53 of 64 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #746 of 1,111 ▼ 24 | #51 of 64 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 391 | #837 of 1,176 | #62 of 64 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #893 of 1,105 | #34 of 64 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.6% | #873 of 1,106 | #58 of 64 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.6% | #658 of 1,157 | #23 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.9% | #567 of 759 | #35 of 45 |
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
391
-12 (-3%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 525
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 391 | 24.8 | 15.8:1 | 71% (276) |
| 2023-24 | 418 | 32.8 | 12.8:1 | 88% (366) |
| 2022-23 | 383 | 32.3 | 11.9:1 | 80% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 403 | 33 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 420 | 26.6 | 15.8:1 | 78% (327) |
| 2015-16 | 603 | 41 | 14.7:1 | 79% (475) |
| 2010-11 | 559 | 40 | 14.0:1 | 73% (408) |
| 2000-01 | 458 | 29 | 15.8:1 | 35% (160) |
| 1990-91 | 525 | 28 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bel Air Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (420 to 391); teachers down 7% (26.6 to 24.8).
About Bel Air Elementary
Bel Air Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in Woodbridge, Virginia. It has an enrollment of 391 students in pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Virginia enroll around 499, and this school is 22% below that mark.
Prince William County Public Schools has a total of 95 schools and 90,242 students, Bel Air Elementary among them.
The student body at Bel Air Elementary is 74% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 9% Black, 9% Asian, and 6% White. Among all residents of Prince William County, the Hispanic share is about 26%. A diversity index of 43% means there is a 43% chance two randomly chosen students at Bel Air Elementary are from different groups.
With 24.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.8:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Virginia average 13.8:1. Roughly 71% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Prince William County report 55%.
On the allk12 Grade, Bel Air Elementary lands at C, ahead of 26% of Virginia public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Bel Air Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Virginia schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 61.8%; the prediction is 68.9%.
The county, Prince William County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $131,402 a year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Prince William County's 102 public schools enroll about 89,591 students and include Bel Air Elementary.
Dale City Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Bel Air Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Bel Air Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 72.2%, higher than Bel Air Elementary's 61.8%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 391 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 403. The ratio was 12.2:1 in 2020-21 and 15.8:1 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Bel Air Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Prince William County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
488,880
Census ACS
Median income
$131,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
102
89,591 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince William County Public Schools
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Gainesville HighHigh · 2,648 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
Other schools in Woodbridge
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 2,303 students
- C.D. Hylton HighHigh · 1,859 students
- Lake Ridge MiddleMiddle · 1,487 students
Other Bel Air Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Bel Air Elementary. Bel Air Elementary is the 4th largest of the 8.
- Bel Air ElementaryNEW BRIGHTON, MN · 729 students
- Bel Air ElementaryBel Air, MD · 521 students
- Bel Air Elementary SchoolATHENS, TX · 465 students
- BEL AIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNORFOLK, NE · 333 students
- Bel Air ElementaryBay Point, CA · 328 students
Nearby schools
- Dale City Elementary0.6 mi · 443
- Gar-Field High0.9 mi · 2,524
- George M. Hampton Middle1.3 mi · 893
- Neabsco Elementary1.3 mi · 635
- Minnieville Elementary1.5 mi · 584
- John D. Jenkins Elementary1.7 mi · 634
Frequently asked questions
About Bel Air ElementaryHow large is Bel Air Elementary?
Bel Air Elementary enrolls approximately 391 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Bel Air Elementary serve?
Bel Air Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Bel Air Elementary have?
Bel Air Elementary employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Bel Air Elementary?
Student demographics at Bel Air Elementary are roughly 6% White, 74% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Bel Air Elementary in?
Bel Air Elementary is part of Prince William County Public Schools.
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