Escuela Key Elementary

Escuela Key Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Arlington, Virginia, run under Arlington County Public Schools, serves 572 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Escuela Key Elementary is one of 36 schools operated by Arlington County Public Schools, a district that teaches 27,950 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Escuela Key Elementary reports that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 29% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Arlington County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Escuela Key Elementary reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Escuela Key Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.4%, the actual is 77.4%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the area at large, Arlington County reports that median household earnings sit near $142,114, roughly 77% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Escuela Key Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Arlington County (combined enrollment of about 27,950 students).

Nearest neighbor: Arlington Community High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Escuela Key Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Escuela Key Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 80.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 739 students in 2018 compared to 572 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 29% across the same window.

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