Dale City Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Woodbridge, Virginia, Dale City Elementary enrolls 443 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Prince William County Public Schools.

Dale City Elementary is one of 95 schools operated by Prince William County Public Schools, a district that teaches 90,242 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dale City Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 13% Black, 8% Asian, 8% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 71% of students at Dale City Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Prince William County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dale City Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 81.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Prince William County indicate the typical household earns roughly $131,402 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Prince William County runs 102 public schools (combined enrollment of about 89,591 students), of which Dale City Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Bel Air Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dale City Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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