Cherry Run Elementary

Located at 9732 Ironmaster Dr, in Burke, Virginia, Cherry Run Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that works with 481 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of Fairfax County Public Schools.

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

On the student-mix side, Cherry Run Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 12% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 8% of students at Cherry Run Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cherry Run Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 86.0%, the actual is 87.3%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Across the wider county, Fairfax County reports that the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Cherry Run Elementary is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sangster Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cherry Run Elementary. On composite proficiency, Cherry Run Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 86.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 427 students in 2018 compared to 481 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 73% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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