Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary

Located at 5970 Meeres Road, in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary is a high-enrollment primary school that works with 761 students (grades 3 through 6), overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary sits 53% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 199 schools in Fairfax County Public Schools (179,323 students total), Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 22% Hispanic, 14% Black, 10% multiracial. Compared to Fairfax County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.4%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of -9.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Fairfax County put median household income runs about $153,637, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fort Belvoir Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fort Belvoir Upper Elementary has grew 31%, going from 583 students in 2018 to 761 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 21% to 14% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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