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George Carr Round Elementary
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About George Carr Round Elementary
George Carr Round Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Manassas, Virginia, one of the schools within Manassas City Public Schools, with 512 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.
George Carr Round Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Manassas City Public Schools, a district that serves 7,345 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, George Carr Round Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% White, 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.
Looking at school resources, George Carr Round Elementary logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at George Carr Round Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Manassas city's rate of about 78%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), George Carr Round Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.9%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of -2.6 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Manassas city put the typical household earns roughly $113,590 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Manassas city runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,996 students), of which George Carr Round Elementary is one.
Jennie Dean Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around George Carr Round Elementary. On composite proficiency, George Carr Round Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.
George Carr Round Elementary operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. George Carr Round Elementary's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 639 (now 512).
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