Bonnie Brae Elementary

Bonnie Brae Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in Fairfax, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, with 718 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Bonnie Brae Elementary sits 44% larger than that benchmark.

Fairfax County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 179,323 students. Bonnie Brae Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bonnie Brae Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 10% multiracial, 10% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bonnie Brae Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 81.4%; this one delivers 77.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate median household income runs about $153,637, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Fairfax County runs 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), of which Bonnie Brae Elementary is one.

Fairview Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bonnie Brae Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bonnie Brae Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 83.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bonnie Brae Elementary has edged down 9%, going from 791 students in 2018 to 718 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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