Ferdinand T. Day Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Alexandria, Virginia, Ferdinand T. Day Elementary teaches 589 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Alexandria City Public Schools.

Ferdinand T. Day Elementary is one of 18 schools operated by Alexandria City Public Schools, a district that enrolls 16,575 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ferdinand T. Day Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 30% Black, 16% White, 11% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ferdinand T. Day Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Ferdinand T. Day Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Alexandria city runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ferdinand T. Day Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.8%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of -14.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Alexandria city) records that the typical household earns roughly $119,681 per year, 66% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alexandria city's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,575 students), Ferdinand T. Day Elementary is one campus in the mix.

John Adams Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ferdinand T. Day Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ferdinand T. Day Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

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