Belvedere Elementary

Set in Falls Church, Virginia, Belvedere Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school, operated by Fairfax County Public Schools. It hosts 606 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% bigger than the state mean of about 499.

Within Fairfax County Public Schools, which oversees 199 schools and 179,323 students, Belvedere Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Belvedere Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% White, 11% Asian, 10% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfax County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Belvedere Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.8%; this one delivers 78.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fairfax County) reports that median household earnings sit near $153,637, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Fairfax County runs 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), of which Belvedere Elementary is one.

Columbia Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Belvedere Elementary. On composite proficiency, Belvedere Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Belvedere Elementary's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 734 (now 606). White enrollment moved from 24% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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