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What's one thing Dranesville Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
610
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126002117
Dranesville Elementary
1515 Powells Tavern Pl, Herndon, VA 20170 · (703) 326-5200 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL610 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
12.8:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
289 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 9 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 84 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (84).
Student demographics
63%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
71.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
66.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 67.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.0% | 63.0% |
% 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
66.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.2%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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 Dranesville Elementary
Dranesville Elementary's state test result (66.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dranesville Elementary this school | 610 | 47.4% | 66.0% |
| Frances Hazel Reid Elementary Leesburg | 647 | 48.8% | 67.4% |
| Cool Spring Elementary Leesburg | 591 | 53.6% | 66.3% |
| Rose Hill Elementary Alexandria | 671 | 42.6% | 63.2% |
| Charles Barrett Elementary Alexandria | 547 | 51.4% | 67.6% |
| Lake Anne Elementary Reston | 616 | 49.4% | 56.0% |
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 Dranesville Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #705 of 1,101 | #95 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #756 of 1,111 ▼ 77 | #104 of 136 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #581 of 1,111 ▲ 97 | #86 of 136 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 610 | #341 of 1,176 | #73 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #311 of 1,105 | #47 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.3% | #468 of 1,106 | #88 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.4% | #804 of 1,157 | #47 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.3% | #173 of 759 | #25 of 110 |
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
610
-24 (-4%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 844
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 610 | 47.6 | 12.8:1 | 47% (289) |
| 2023-24 | 599 | 45.8 | 13.1:1 | 47% (281) |
| 2022-23 | 611 | 46.8 | 13.1:1 | 45% (276) |
| 2020-21 | 634 | 53 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 765 | 52.7 | 14.5:1 | 45% (345) |
| 2015-16 | 793 | 55 | 14.4:1 | 38% (300) |
| 2010-11 | 643 | 37 | 17.4:1 | 33% (210) |
| 2000-01 | 777 | 50 | 15.5:1 | 3% (26) |
| 1990-91 | 844 | 41 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dranesville Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (765 to 610); teachers down 10% (52.7 to 47.6).
About Dranesville Elementary
Dranesville Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Herndon, Virginia. Total enrollment is 610 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 6. That is 22% bigger than the average of about 499 students for elementary schools in Virginia.
Dranesville Elementary is one of 199 schools in Fairfax County Public Schools, which enrolls 179,323 students in total.
The largest group at Dranesville Elementary is Hispanic students, at 46%. The remaining students are 39% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 5% Black. Census figures show Fairfax County is about 18% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Dranesville Elementary scores 63%.
Dranesville Elementary reports a ratio of 12.8 students per teacher, from 47.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia is 1.0 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Dranesville Elementary, 47% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 37% average for public schools in Fairfax County is 10 points.
Dranesville Elementary holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 28% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Schools in Virginia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 75.2%. Dranesville Elementary scores 66.0%.
For Fairfax County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $153,637, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 65%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 222 public schools in the county, enrolling about 174,475, Dranesville Elementary among them.
Measured in a straight line, Sully Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Dranesville Elementary. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 66.0% is above the 59.2% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Dranesville 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.
A 4% decline took enrollment from 634 in 2020-21 to 610 in 2024-25.
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Fairfax County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,147,837
Census ACS
Median income
$153,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
222
174,475 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfax County Public Schools
- Lake Braddock SecondaryHigh · 4,411 students
- Robinson SecondaryHigh · 3,710 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- Chantilly HighHigh · 2,937 students
- West Springfield HighHigh · 2,799 students
- Westfield HighHigh · 2,737 students
Other schools in Herndon
- Herndon HighHigh · 2,261 students
- Carson MiddleMiddle · 1,358 students
- Coates ElementaryElementary · 996 students
- Hutchison ElementaryElementary · 970 students
- Herndon MiddleMiddle · 895 students
- Herndon ElementaryElementary · 792 students
Nearby schools
- Sully Elementary0.6 mi · 476
- Forest Grove Elementary0.9 mi · 529
- Clearview Elementary0.9 mi · 580
- Herndon High1.0 mi · 2,261
- Sterling Middle1.1 mi · 967
- Sterling Elementary1.2 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About Dranesville ElementaryHow many students attend Dranesville Elementary?
Dranesville Elementary enrolls approximately 610 students in grades PK-06.
Is Dranesville Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dranesville Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Dranesville Elementary have?
Dranesville Elementary employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Dranesville Elementary?
Student demographics at Dranesville Elementary are roughly 39% White, 46% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Dranesville Elementary in?
Dranesville Elementary is part of Fairfax County Public Schools.
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