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Enrollment
443
Elementary
DISTRICT 636 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510313001291
Dale City Elementary
14450 Brook Dr, Woodbridge, VA 22193 · (703) 670-2208 · Prince William County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL443 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of Virginia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
315 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
80.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +7.0pp since 2022
Math
82.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +9.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 9 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 82.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 75.0% |
| 2022-23 | 73.0% | 73.0% |
% 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
81.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.7%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Dale City Elementary
Dale City Elementary's state test result (81.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dale City Elementary this school | 443 | 71.1% | 81.8% |
| Enterprise Elementary Woodbridge | 414 | 70.5% | 66.0% |
| Belmont Elementary Woodbridge | 492 | 71.1% | 73.8% |
| Suella G. Ellis Elementary Manassas | 403 | 71.2% | 60.4% |
| Bel Air Elementary Woodbridge | 391 | 70.6% | 61.8% |
| Potomac View Elementary Woodbridge | 557 | 70.7% | 69.8% |
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 Dale City Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Prince William County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.8% | #269 of 1,101 | #21 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #346 of 1,111 ▲ 146 | #20 of 64 ▲ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #332 of 1,111 ▲ 207 | #20 of 64 ▲ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 443 | #721 of 1,176 | #56 of 64 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #881 of 1,105 | #32 of 64 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.8% | #747 of 1,106 | #55 of 64 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.1% | #645 of 1,157 | #13 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.3% | #546 of 759 | #31 of 45 |
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
443
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 513
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 443 | 28.2 | 15.7:1 | 71% (315) |
| 2023-24 | 422 | 30.7 | 13.8:1 | 95% (399) |
| 2022-23 | 425 | 32.8 | 13.0:1 | 80% (338) |
| 2020-21 | 438 | 33 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 478 | 35.5 | 13.5:1 | 72% (345) |
| 2015-16 | 467 | 35 | 13.3:1 | 76% (353) |
| 2010-11 | 444 | 31 | 14.3:1 | 71% (316) |
| 2000-01 | 448 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 40% (179) |
| 1990-91 | 513 | 28 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dale City Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (478 to 443); teachers down 20% (35.5 to 28.2).
About Dale City Elementary
Dale City Elementary is one of the public schools in Woodbridge, Virginia. It is a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 443 students in pre-K through 5.
Prince William County Public Schools runs 95 schools with a combined 90,242 students. Dale City Elementary is one of them.
More than half of enrollment at Dale City Elementary is Hispanic: 68%. The remaining shares are 13% Black, 8% Asian, 8% White, and 3% multiracial. Prince William County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 51%.
For every teacher at Dale City Elementary, there are about 15.7 students; the school has 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Virginia, 13.8:1, is lower. There are 315 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 71% of enrollment. Compared with the 55% average for public schools in Prince William County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Virginia public elementary schools, Dale City Elementary outscored 86%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Dale City Elementary is +13.0 points: 81.8% actual, 68.7% predicted.
For the population of Prince William County, median household income comes to about $131,402, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Prince William County counts 102 public schools with about 89,591 students.
Dale City Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Bel Air Elementary, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 81.8% is above the 66.3% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Dale City Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 438 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 443. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 13.3:1 to 15.7:1.
This page is set up for the Dale City Elementary community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Prince William County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
488,880
Census ACS
Median income
$131,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
102
89,591 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince William County Public Schools
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Gainesville HighHigh · 2,648 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
Other schools in Woodbridge
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 2,303 students
- C.D. Hylton HighHigh · 1,859 students
- Lake Ridge MiddleMiddle · 1,487 students
Nearby schools
- Bel Air Elementary0.6 mi · 391
- Gar-Field High0.8 mi · 2,524
- Neabsco Elementary1.0 mi · 635
- Fannie W. Fitzgerald Elementary1.4 mi · 829
- George M. Hampton Middle1.4 mi · 893
- Freedom High1.7 mi · 2,303
Frequently asked questions
About Dale City ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Dale City Elementary?
Dale City Elementary enrolls approximately 443 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Dale City Elementary serve?
Dale City Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dale City Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dale City Elementary is approximately 15.7:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Dale City Elementary?
At Dale City Elementary, the student body is approximately 8% White, 68% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Dale City Elementary in?
Dale City Elementary is part of Prince William County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.