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What do students at Belle View Elementary actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
419
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000429
Belle View Elementary
6701 Fort Hunt Rd, Alexandria, VA 22307 · (703) 660-8300 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL419 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% 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
12.6:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
158 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 66%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 47 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 19% larger than its 6th grade class (47).
Student demographics
64%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
70.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
77.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +10.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 10 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 70.0% |
| 2022-23 | 70.0% | 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
68.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
77.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 Belle View Elementary
Belle View Elementary's state test result (68.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belle View Elementary this school | 419 | 37.7% | 68.2% |
| George Mason Elementary Alexandria | 332 | 41.6% | 73.8% |
| W.G. Coleman Elementary The Plains | 355 | 39.4% | 65.8% |
| Courtland Elementary Spotsylvania | 548 | 40.7% | 71.1% |
| Cunningham Park Elementary Vienna | 412 | 35.0% | 69.5% |
| H.M. Pearson Elementary Catlett | 388 | 44.1% | 59.5% |
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 Belle View Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #642 of 1,101 | #89 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #478 of 1,111 ▲ 123 | #72 of 136 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #604 of 1,111 ▲ 20 | #89 of 136 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 419 | #764 of 1,176 | #129 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #263 of 1,105 | #37 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #442 of 1,106 | #82 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.7% | #872 of 1,157 | #61 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.9% | #96 of 759 | #15 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
419
+18 (+4%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 451
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 419 | 33.4 | 12.6:1 | 38% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 401 | 33.3 | 12.0:1 | 38% (153) |
| 2022-23 | 405 | 33.3 | 12.2:1 | 39% (157) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 36 | 11.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 40.1 | 13.9:1 | 34% (191) |
| 2015-16 | 531 | 43 | 12.3:1 | 32% (171) |
| 2010-11 | 506 | 28 | 18.1:1 | 30% (152) |
| 2000-01 | 345 | 33 | 10.4:1 | 24% (84) |
| 1990-91 | 451 | 27 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Belle View Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (558 to 419); teachers down 17% (40.1 to 33.4).
About Belle View Elementary
Belle View Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Alexandria, Virginia. The school enrolls 419 students, from pre-K through 6.
The 199 schools of Fairfax County Public Schools, including Belle View Elementary, enroll 179,323 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Belle View Elementary is White (48%). Other students are 34% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, Fairfax County is about 49% White. Belle View Elementary has a diversity index of 64%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reports 33.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 12.6 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Virginia average 13.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 38% of students. Across public schools in Fairfax County, the average is about the same, 37%.
Belle View Elementary is graded C by allk12, scoring above 31% of Virginia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Belle View Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Virginia is predicted to score 77.8%. Belle View Elementary scores 68.2%, 9.7 points below that line.
Within Fairfax County, median household income is about $153,637, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 65% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Federal data list 222 public schools in Fairfax County, with a combined enrollment of about 174,475.
Nearby, West Potomac High is about 0.6 miles away. Belle View Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Belle View Elementary at 2nd of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 419, 4% above the 401 of 2020-21. Students per teacher rose from 11.1 in 2020-21 to 12.6 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Alexandria
- Alexandria City HighHigh · 4,655 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- West Potomac HighHigh · 2,710 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,294 students
- Thomas Jefferson High for Science and TechnologyHigh · 2,108 students
- Mount Vernon HighHigh · 1,858 students
Nearby schools
- West Potomac High0.6 mi · 2,710
- Bucknell Elementary0.8 mi · 319
- Bryant High1.1 mi · 154
- Mount Eagle Elementary1.3 mi · 361
- Hollin Meadows Elementary1.6 mi · 594
- Hybla Valley Elementary1.8 mi · 878
Frequently asked questions
About Belle View ElementaryHow large is Belle View Elementary?
Belle View Elementary enrolls approximately 419 students in grades PK-06.
Is Belle View Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Belle View Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Belle View Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Belle View Elementary is approximately 12.6:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Belle View Elementary?
At Belle View Elementary, the student body is approximately 48% White, 34% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Belle View Elementary public or private?
Belle View 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.