Buffalo Trail Elementary

Buffalo Trail Elementary operates as a well-populated elementary school in Aldie, Virginia, operated by Loudoun County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 756 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Buffalo Trail Elementary sits 52% above that benchmark.

Loudoun County Public Schools comprises 98 schools with combined enrollment of 81,486 students; Buffalo Trail Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Buffalo Trail Elementary logs that 47% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% White, 8% multiracial, 8% Black, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Loudoun County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Buffalo Trail Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 84.8%; this one delivers 83.5%.

In the surrounding community, Loudoun County reports that median household earnings sit near $181,765, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Loudoun County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,486 students), Buffalo Trail Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Liberty Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Buffalo Trail Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Buffalo Trail Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 85.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buffalo Trail Elementary has shrank 42%, going from 1,304 students in 2018 to 756 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 28% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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