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If you could change one rule at Cool Spring Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
591
Elementary
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510225002154
Cool Spring Elementary
501 Tavistock Dr SE, Leesburg, VA 20175 · (571) 252-2890 · Loudoun County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL591 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% 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
11.0:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
317 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 | 19 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
62.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
65.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +6.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 6 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 63.0% | 59.0% |
% 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
66.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Cool Spring Elementary
Cool Spring Elementary's state test result (66.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cool Spring Elementary this school | 591 | 53.6% | 66.3% |
| Lake Anne Elementary Reston | 616 | 49.4% | 56.0% |
| Frances Hazel Reid Elementary Leesburg | 647 | 48.8% | 67.4% |
| Dranesville Elementary Herndon | 610 | 47.4% | 66.0% |
| Belvedere Elementary Falls Church | 606 | 56.1% | 78.7% |
| Charles Barrett Elementary Alexandria | 547 | 51.4% | 67.6% |
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 Cool Spring Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Loudoun County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #697 of 1,101 | #52 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #789 of 1,111 ▼ 29 | #55 of 59 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #815 of 1,111 ▲ 103 | #53 of 59 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 591 | #377 of 1,176 | #29 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #77 of 1,105 | #11 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #323 of 1,106 | #25 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.6% | #786 of 1,157 | #10 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #743 of 759 | #45 of 46 |
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
591
+48 (+9%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 638
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 591 | 53.6 | 11.0:1 | 54% (317) |
| 2023-24 | 601 | 50.5 | 11.9:1 | 48% (287) |
| 2022-23 | 613 | 49.5 | 12.4:1 | 49% (298) |
| 2020-21 | 543 | 38 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 595 | 36.8 | 16.2:1 | 31% (183) |
| 2015-16 | 608 | 38 | 16.0:1 | 29% (177) |
| 2010-11 | 814 | 37 | 22.0:1 | 18% (150) |
| 2000-01 | 737 | 42 | 17.6:1 | 16% (118) |
| 1990-91 | 638 | 37 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cool Spring Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (595 to 591); teachers up 46% (36.8 to 53.6).
About Cool Spring Elementary
The public elementary school Cool Spring Elementary is located in Leesburg, Virginia. It serves 591 students in pre-K through 5.
Loudoun County Public Schools, which runs Cool Spring Elementary, has 98 schools and 81,486 students.
At Cool Spring Elementary, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 42%. It is also 37% White, 8% Black, 6% Asian, and 6% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Loudoun County is roughly 14% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 67% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Cool Spring Elementary employs 53.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.0:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Cool Spring Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 54%. The rate at public schools in Loudoun County averages 28%, lower than here.
Cool Spring Elementary is graded C by allk12, scoring above 30% of Virginia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, Cool Spring Elementary is 7.3 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Virginia schools.
Loudoun County has about 432,998 residents, and the median household income is $181,765, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 65% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. In all, Loudoun County has 103 public schools and roughly 81,486 students.
J. Lupton Simpson Middle is the public school closest to Cool Spring Elementary, about 1.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Cool Spring Elementary is 9th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Cool Spring Elementary's enrollment grew from 543 in 2020-21 to 591 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.0:1) than in 2020-21 (14.3:1).
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Loudoun County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
432,998
Census ACS
Median income
$181,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
103
81,486 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Loudoun County Public Schools
- Independence HighHigh · 2,166 students
- Lightridge HighHigh · 2,030 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 1,885 students
- Briar Woods HighHigh · 1,862 students
- John Champe HighHigh · 1,851 students
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,710 students
Other schools in Leesburg
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,710 students
- Heritage HighCombined · 1,475 students
- Tuscarora HighCombined · 1,377 students
- Loudoun County HighHigh · 1,334 students
- Belmont Ridge MiddleMiddle · 1,071 students
- Smart's Mill MiddleMiddle · 885 students
Other Cool Spring Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Cool Spring Elementary. Cool Spring Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Cool Spring ElementaryMechanicsville, VA · 852 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryPetersburg, VA · 540 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryAdelphi, MD · 458 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryCleveland, NC · 447 students
Nearby schools
- J. Lupton Simpson Middle1.1 mi · 874
- Heritage High1.2 mi · 1,475
- Frederick Douglass Elementary1.2 mi · 581
- Evergreen Mill Elementary1.3 mi · 569
- John W. Tolbert Jr. Elementary1.4 mi · 617
- Harper Park Middle1.4 mi · 858
Frequently asked questions
About Cool Spring ElementaryHow large is Cool Spring Elementary?
Cool Spring Elementary enrolls approximately 591 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cool Spring Elementary serve?
Cool Spring Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Cool Spring Elementary?
Approximately 11.0:1 students per teacher at Cool Spring Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cool Spring Elementary?
At Cool Spring Elementary, the student body is approximately 37% White, 42% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Cool Spring Elementary?
Cool Spring Elementary is overseen by Loudoun County Public Schools in Loudoun County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.