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Enrollment
764
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000488
Groveton Elementary
6900 Harrison Ln, Alexandria, VA 22306 · (703) 718-8000 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL764 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of Virginia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
639 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 102 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 104 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (104).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
53.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
Math
52.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 7 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.0% | 45.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
49.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 65% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Groveton Elementary
Groveton Elementary's state test result (49.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groveton Elementary this school | 764 | 83.6% | 49.5% |
| Baldwin Elementary Manassas | 631 | 86.7% | 56.3% |
| Manassas Park Elementary Manassas Park | 712 | 81.9% | 48.5% |
| William Ramsay Elementary Alexandria | 689 | 88.7% | 42.4% |
| Cougar Elementary Manassas Park | 857 | 82.4% | N/A |
| Herndon Elementary Herndon | 792 | 74.4% | 41.5% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Groveton Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #980 of 1,101 | #117 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #999 of 1,111 ▼ 6 | #123 of 136 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #968 of 1,111 ▼ 24 | #115 of 136 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 764 | #119 of 1,176 | #29 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #557 of 1,105 | #84 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.4% | #608 of 1,106 | #111 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.6% | #447 of 1,157 | #13 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #641 of 759 | #88 of 110 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
764
+46 (+6%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 682
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 764 | 54.6 | 14.0:1 | 84% (639) |
| 2023-24 | 790 | 55 | 14.4:1 | 76% (602) |
| 2022-23 | 779 | 58 | 13.4:1 | 71% (555) |
| 2020-21 | 718 | 56 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 795 | 59.5 | 13.4:1 | 66% (527) |
| 2015-16 | 801 | 64 | 12.5:1 | 68% (548) |
| 2010-11 | 700 | 49 | 14.3:1 | 66% (459) |
| 2000-01 | 517 | 38 | 13.6:1 | 50% (259) |
| 1990-91 | 682 | 43 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Groveton Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (795 to 764); teachers down 8% (59.5 to 54.6).
About Groveton Elementary
Groveton Elementary serves students in Alexandria, Virginia, as a large elementary school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 764 students in pre-K through 6. The average for elementary schools in Virginia is about 499 students, so this school is 53% larger than average.
Fairfax County Public Schools runs Groveton Elementary along with 198 other schools, enrolling 179,323 students in total.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Groveton Elementary, at 61%. The remaining shares are 16% Black, 14% White, 7% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Fairfax County's population at about 18%. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 14.0 students per teacher and 54.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in Virginia average 13.8:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 84%. The rate at public schools in Fairfax County averages 37%, lower than here.
Groveton Elementary is graded D by allk12, scoring above 9% of Virginia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Groveton Elementary is -15.8 points, in the bottom 10% of Virginia. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 49.5%, and the predicted rate is 65.3%.
Census Bureau estimates for Fairfax County show that the median household income is $153,637, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 65%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Groveton Elementary is one of 222 public schools in the county.
Virginia Hills Early Childhood Resource Center is located about 0.5 miles from Groveton Elementary. The five-mile area around Groveton Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 56.5% proficiency; Groveton Elementary posts 49.5%.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 764 students in 2024-25, 46 more than the 718 it had in 2020-21. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 12.8:1 to 14.0:1.
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Fairfax County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,147,837
Census ACS
Median income
$153,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
222
174,475 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfax County Public Schools
- Lake Braddock SecondaryHigh · 4,411 students
- Robinson SecondaryHigh · 3,710 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- Chantilly HighHigh · 2,937 students
- West Springfield HighHigh · 2,799 students
- Westfield HighHigh · 2,737 students
Other schools in Alexandria
- Alexandria City HighHigh · 4,655 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- West Potomac HighHigh · 2,710 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,294 students
- Thomas Jefferson High for Science and TechnologyHigh · 2,108 students
- Mount Vernon HighHigh · 1,858 students
Other Groveton Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Groveton Elementary. Groveton Elementary is the largest of the 3.
- Groveton Elementary SchoolGROVETON, TX · 343 students
- Groveton Elementary SchoolGroveton, NH · 116 students
Nearby schools
- Virginia Hills Early Childhood Resource Center0.5 mi · 249
- Hybla Valley Elementary0.7 mi · 878
- Bryant High0.9 mi · 154
- Bucknell Elementary1.1 mi · 319
- West Potomac High1.3 mi · 2,710
- Mount Eagle Elementary1.4 mi · 361
Frequently asked questions
About Groveton ElementaryHow large is Groveton Elementary?
Groveton Elementary enrolls approximately 764 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Groveton Elementary serve?
Groveton Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Groveton Elementary?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Groveton Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Groveton Elementary?
Student demographics at Groveton Elementary are roughly 14% White, 61% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Groveton Elementary in?
Groveton Elementary is part of Fairfax County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.