Halley Elementary

Halley Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Fairfax Station, Virginia, part of Fairfax County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 608 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Halley Elementary sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

Halley Elementary is one of 199 schools operated by Fairfax County Public Schools, a district that instructs 179,323 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Halley Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (26%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% White, 23% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the income-and-resources front, Halley Elementary logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at Halley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Halley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.9%; this one delivers 69.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Fairfax County put 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%. Halley Elementary is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

The closest other public school is South County Middle, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Halley Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 76.3%.

Halley Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Halley Elementary's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 667 (now 608). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 33% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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