Braddock Elementary

Braddock Elementary operates as a sprawling K-5 school in Annandale, Virginia, operated by Fairfax County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 955 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 91% bigger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Braddock Elementary records that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% Asian, 6% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Braddock Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at Braddock Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Braddock Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 65.5%; actual is 43.5%, a gap of -22.0 points.

Around the school, 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%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Braddock Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Annandale High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Braddock Elementary. On composite proficiency, Braddock Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Braddock Elementary's enrollment has expanded 15% since 2018, when it stood at 833 (now 955). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 73% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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