Forest Edge Elementary

Located at 1501 Beacontree Ln, in Reston, Virginia, Forest Edge Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school that caters to 454 students (grades pre-K through 6), operated by Fairfax County Public Schools.

Fairfax County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 179,323 students. Forest Edge Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Forest Edge Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Black (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 31% White, 25% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfax County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Forest Edge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 70.3%, a residual of +3.6 points.

In the area at large, Fairfax County reports that median household income runs about $153,637, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Forest Edge Elementary is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

The closest other public school is Aldrin Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forest Edge Elementary. On composite proficiency, Forest Edge Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 72.0%.

Forest Edge Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 23%: 591 students in 2018 compared to 454 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 25% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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