Douglas MacArthur Elementary

Douglas MacArthur Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, operated by Alexandria City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 680 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% above the state mean of about 499.

Within Alexandria City Public Schools, which oversees 18 schools and 16,575 students, Douglas MacArthur Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Douglas MacArthur Elementary shows that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 24% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Alexandria city as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Alexandria city's rate of about 69%.

With demographic context factored in, Douglas MacArthur Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.5%, the actual is 74.4%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Alexandria city) logs that median household earnings sit near $119,681, roughly 66% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Alexandria city's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,575 students), Douglas MacArthur Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Alexandria City High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Douglas MacArthur Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.7%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 734 students in 2018 compared to 680 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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