Haymarket Elementary

Haymarket Elementary is a big elementary school in Haymarket, Virginia, operated by Prince William County Public Schools. The school educates 963 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 93% bigger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Within Prince William County Public Schools, which oversees 95 schools and 90,242 students, Haymarket Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Haymarket Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 23% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 10% Black. Compared to Prince William County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Haymarket Elementary reports 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Haymarket Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at Haymarket Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Prince William County's rate of about 55%.

After controlling for student poverty, Haymarket Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 82.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 90.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Prince William County put the typical household earns roughly $131,402 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Prince William County's 102 public schools (combined enrollment of about 89,591 students), Haymarket Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Buckland Mills Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Haymarket Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Haymarket Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 83.7%.

Haymarket Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Haymarket Elementary has grew 14%, going from 845 students in 2018 to 963 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 54% to 43%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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