Cedar Lane Elementary

Cedar Lane Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Ashburn, Virginia, part of Loudoun County Public Schools, with 701 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Cedar Lane Elementary sits 40% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Cedar Lane Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, Loudoun County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Cedar Lane Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 81.9%; this one delivers 85.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Loudoun County) shows that median household income runs about $181,765, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Cedar Lane Elementary is one of 103 public schools in Loudoun County (combined enrollment of about 81,486 students).

Farmwell Station Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cedar Lane Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 82.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Lane Elementary has contracted 12%, going from 797 students in 2018 to 701 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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