Crestwood Elementary

Crestwood Elementary operates as a mid-tier primary school in Springfield, Virginia, one of the schools within Fairfax County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 582 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Fairfax County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 179,323 students; Crestwood Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Crestwood Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% Asian, 9% White, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Fairfax County's rate of about 37%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Crestwood Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 67.4%; Crestwood Elementary posts 46.5%, -20.9 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate 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%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Crestwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lynbrook Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crestwood Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crestwood Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 63.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Crestwood Elementary's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 639 (now 582). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 68% to 74% over that span.

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