Daniels Run Elementary

Daniels Run Elementary, a sprawling elementary-level community in Fairfax, Virginia, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools, serves 811 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 63% bigger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Daniels Run Elementary is one of 199 schools operated by Fairfax County Public Schools, a district that works with 179,323 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Daniels Run Elementary reports that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 36% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 39% of students at Daniels Run Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Daniels Run Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.6%; this one delivers 68.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fairfax city indicate the typical household earns roughly $132,348 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Fairfax city's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,334 students), Daniels Run Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Fairfax High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Daniels Run Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 80.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Daniels Run Elementary has climbed 4%, going from 778 students in 2018 to 811 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 31% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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