Crossfield Elementary

Crossfield Elementary, a mid-tier elementary campus in Herndon, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, teaches 513 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

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

Demographically, Crossfield Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, Crossfield Elementary lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crossfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 85.9%, the actual is 85.3%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the area at large, 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 the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Crossfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Hunters Woods Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crossfield Elementary. On composite proficiency, Crossfield Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 77.7%.

Crossfield Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Crossfield Elementary's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 669 (now 513). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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