Forest Grove Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary school in Sterling, Virginia, Forest Grove Elementary teaches 529 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Loudoun County Public Schools.

Loudoun County Public Schools comprises 98 schools with combined enrollment of 81,486 students; Forest Grove Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Forest Grove Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 15% White, 11% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the resource side, Forest Grove Elementary lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Forest Grove Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Loudoun County (around 28%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Forest Grove Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Loudoun County put the typical household earns roughly $181,765 per year, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Forest Grove Elementary is one of 103 public schools in Loudoun County (combined enrollment of about 81,486 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sully Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forest Grove Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 576 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 48% to 67% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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