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Enrollment
606
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000440
Cameron Elementary
3434 Campbell Dr, Alexandria, VA 22303 · (703) 329-2100 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL606 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
531 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 54 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 55 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 49% larger than its 6th grade class (55).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
61.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +11.0pp since 2022
Math
62.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +12.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 12 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 48.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 50.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cameron Elementary
Cameron Elementary's state test result (57.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Elementary this school | 606 | 87.6% | 57.3% |
| Dumbarton Elementary Richmond | 684 | 90.2% | 45.8% |
| Ridge Elementary Richmond | 512 | 87.7% | 40.7% |
| Ferdinand T. Day Elementary Alexandria | 589 | 89.1% | 49.9% |
| Skipwith Elementary Richmond | 603 | 88.1% | 56.0% |
| Woodbrook Elementary Charlottesville | 522 | 90.0% | 39.5% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cameron Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.3% | #882 of 1,101 | #109 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #850 of 1,111 ▲ 135 | #108 of 136 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #829 of 1,111 ▲ 135 | #106 of 136 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 606 | #349 of 1,176 | #77 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #300 of 1,105 | #45 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.5% | #42 of 1,106 | #6 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.6% | #388 of 1,157 | #11 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.9% | #62 of 324 | #7 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
606
+118 (+24%) vs 2020
+61% since 1990-91, when it was 376
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 11.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 606 | 47.5 | 12.8:1 | 88% (531) |
| 2023-24 | 534 | 36.9 | 14.5:1 | 81% (430) |
| 2022-23 | 492 | 35.3 | 14.0:1 | 68% (334) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 41 | 11.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 523 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 62% (324) |
| 2015-16 | 521 | 40 | 13.0:1 | 61% (318) |
| 2010-11 | 529 | 40 | 13.2:1 | 66% (351) |
| 2000-01 | 645 | 47 | 13.7:1 | 56% (359) |
| 1990-91 | 376 | 29 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cameron Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (523 to 606); teachers up 36% (35 to 47.5).
About Cameron Elementary
Cameron Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, under Fairfax County Public Schools. It educates 606 students in pre-K through 6. The school's enrollment is 21% larger than the 499 average for elementary schools in Virginia.
Fairfax County Public Schools has 199 schools and 179,323 students, and Cameron Elementary is one of those schools.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at Cameron Elementary, at 34%. Other groups make up 25% White, 20% Black, 15% Asian, and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 18% of Fairfax County residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 76% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 47.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 12.8:1. That is 1.1 students per teacher below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Cameron Elementary reports 88% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Fairfax County report 37%.
Cameron Elementary is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 21% of Virginia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In Virginia, Cameron Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 57.3% actual against a predicted 64.3%.
Fairfax County has about 1,147,837 residents, and the median household income is $153,637, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Cameron Elementary, Fairfax County has 221 other public schools.
Clermont Elementary is located about 1.1 miles from Cameron Elementary. The five-mile area around Cameron Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Cameron Elementary comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 606 students in 2024-25, 118 more than the 488 it had in 2020-21.
Community posts for Cameron Elementary can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Fairfax County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,147,837
Census ACS
Median income
$153,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
222
174,475 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfax County Public Schools
- Lake Braddock SecondaryHigh · 4,411 students
- Robinson SecondaryHigh · 3,710 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- Chantilly HighHigh · 2,937 students
- West Springfield HighHigh · 2,799 students
- Westfield HighHigh · 2,737 students
Other schools in Alexandria
- Alexandria City HighHigh · 4,655 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- West Potomac HighHigh · 2,710 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,294 students
- Thomas Jefferson High for Science and TechnologyHigh · 2,108 students
- Mount Vernon HighHigh · 1,858 students
Other Cameron Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 9 states are named Cameron Elementary. Cameron Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 11.
- Cameron Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 671 students
- Cameron ElementaryBarstow, CA · 436 students
- Cameron ElementaryCameron, WI · 432 students
- Cameron ElementaryWest Covina, CA · 363 students
- Cameron Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 344 students
Nearby schools
- Clermont Elementary1.1 mi · 549
- Douglas MacArthur Elementary1.1 mi · 680
- Mount Eagle Elementary1.3 mi · 361
- Twain Middle1.4 mi · 1,026
- Alexandria City High1.6 mi · 4,655
- Patrick Henry K-8 School1.6 mi · 1,075
Frequently asked questions
About Cameron ElementaryHow many students attend Cameron Elementary?
Cameron Elementary enrolls approximately 606 students in grades PK-06.
Is Cameron Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cameron Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Cameron Elementary?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Cameron Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Cameron Elementary?
Student demographics at Cameron Elementary are roughly 25% White, 34% Hispanic, 20% Black, 15% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Cameron Elementary?
Cameron Elementary is overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools in Fairfax County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.