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Enrollment
792
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000494
Herndon Elementary
630 Dranesville Rd, Herndon, VA 20170 · (703) 326-3100 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL792 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% of Virginia public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
15.3:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
589 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 | 91 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 115 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 112 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 19% smaller than its 6th grade class (112).
Student demographics
49%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
44.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
39.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 4 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 44.0% |
| 2022-23 | 39.0% | 43.0% |
% 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
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.9%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 68% 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 Herndon Elementary
Herndon Elementary's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herndon Elementary this school | 792 | 74.4% | 41.5% |
| Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences Falls Church | 814 | 72.4% | N/A |
| Westlawn Elementary Falls Church | 789 | 77.1% | 44.0% |
| Manassas Park Elementary Manassas Park | 712 | 81.9% | 48.5% |
| Yorkshire Elementary Manassas | 851 | 70.5% | 62.1% |
| Cougar Elementary Manassas Park | 857 | 82.4% | N/A |
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 Herndon Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #1,054 of 1,101 | #132 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,087 of 1,111 ▼ 60 | #135 of 136 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,060 of 1,111 ▲ 21 | #131 of 136 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 792 | #99 of 1,176 | #24 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #825 of 1,105 | #113 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.9% | #777 of 1,106 | #129 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.4% | #588 of 1,157 | #28 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.8% | #416 of 759 | #53 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
792
-2 (0%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 958
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 792 | 51.7 | 15.3:1 | 74% (589) |
| 2023-24 | 807 | 52.7 | 15.3:1 | 67% (544) |
| 2022-23 | 808 | 53.8 | 15.0:1 | 66% (536) |
| 2020-21 | 794 | 60 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 888 | 62.5 | 14.2:1 | 62% (547) |
| 2015-16 | 921 | 64 | 14.4:1 | 54% (498) |
| 2010-11 | 807 | 48 | 16.8:1 | 42% (338) |
| 2000-01 | 1,036 | 63 | 16.4:1 | 31% (317) |
| 1990-91 | 958 | 44 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Herndon Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (888 to 792); teachers down 17% (62.5 to 51.7).
About Herndon Elementary
Herndon Elementary runs as a large elementary school in Herndon, Virginia. The school had 792 students in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Virginia) has about 499 students.
Across its 199 schools, Fairfax County Public Schools enrolls 179,323 students. Herndon Elementary is one of those schools.
By race and ethnicity, Herndon Elementary is 69% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 13% White, 10% Black, 5% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Fairfax County is about 18% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Herndon Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 49%.
Federal data list 51.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Herndon Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 15.3:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Virginia is 13.8:1, lower than at this school. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 74%. Public schools in Fairfax County average 37%.
The allk12 Grade for Herndon Elementary is F. Compared with Virginia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 3% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 67.9% for Herndon Elementary, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 41.5%. The 26.4-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools.
Across Fairfax County, median household income is about $153,637, about 65% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Herndon Elementary is among the 222 public schools in Fairfax County.
Nearest public school: Herndon High, about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Herndon Elementary ranks 9th of 9 on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Herndon Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 794 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 792. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.3:1.
Discussions about Herndon Elementary may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Herndon
- Herndon HighHigh · 2,261 students
- Carson MiddleMiddle · 1,358 students
- Coates ElementaryElementary · 996 students
- Hutchison ElementaryElementary · 970 students
- Herndon MiddleMiddle · 895 students
- Floris ElementaryElementary · 666 students
Nearby schools
- Herndon High0.7 mi · 2,261
- Clearview Elementary0.9 mi · 580
- Herndon Middle1.0 mi · 895
- Armstrong Elementary1.0 mi · 357
- Dranesville Elementary1.5 mi · 610
- Forest Grove Elementary1.7 mi · 529
Frequently asked questions
About Herndon ElementaryHow large is Herndon Elementary?
Herndon Elementary enrolls approximately 792 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Herndon Elementary serve?
Herndon Elementary serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Herndon Elementary have?
Herndon Elementary employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Herndon Elementary?
At Herndon Elementary, the student body is approximately 13% White, 69% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Herndon Elementary?
Herndon Elementary is overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools in Fairfax County.
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