Bren Mar Park Elementary

Bren Mar Park Elementary operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Alexandria, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 490 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Bren Mar Park Elementary is one of 199 schools operated by Fairfax County Public Schools, a district that caters to 179,323 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bren Mar Park Elementary shows that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 20% White, 19% Black, 13% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bren Mar Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.0%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of -7.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Fairfax County shows the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, 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 Bren Mar Park Elementary is one.

Holmes Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bren Mar Park Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.2%.

Bren Mar Park Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bren Mar Park Elementary has contracted 3%, going from 505 students in 2018 to 490 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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