Graham Road Elementary

Located at 2831 Graham Rd, in Falls Church, Virginia, Graham Road Elementary is a medium-sized primary school that enrolls 438 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools.

Fairfax County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 179,323 students; Graham Road Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Graham Road Elementary records that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 6% White, 4% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Graham Road Elementary reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Graham Road Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.9%; Graham Road Elementary posts 40.5%, -22.4 points below that line.

Around the school, Fairfax County reports that the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Graham Road Elementary is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

Timber Lane Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Graham Road Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 67.4%.

Graham Road Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 442 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 76% to 84%.

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