Edison High

As a roomy 9-12 campus in Alexandria, Virginia, Edison High serves 2,294 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Fairfax County Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Edison High sits 89% above that benchmark.

Within Fairfax County Public Schools, which oversees 199 schools and 179,323 students, Edison High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Edison High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% White, 18% Black, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 183 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Edison High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.6%, the actual is 70.7%, a residual of -6.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Fairfax County shows the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Edison High is one campus in the mix.

Franconia Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edison High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edison High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 73.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 2,093 students in 2018 compared to 2,294 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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