H.M. Pearson Elementary

H.M. Pearson Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school in Catlett, Virginia, operated by Fauquier County Public Schools. The school instructs 388 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 22% smaller than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Fauquier County Public Schools runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 10,861 students. H.M. Pearson Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, H.M. Pearson Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest comes out to 28% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at H.M. Pearson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Fauquier County's rate of about 33%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, H.M. Pearson Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 76.1%; actual is 59.5%, a gap of -16.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Fauquier County put the typical household earns roughly $130,189 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Fauquier County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,861 students), H.M. Pearson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Greenville Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts H.M. Pearson Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 69.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at H.M. Pearson Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 389 students in 2018 to 388 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 28% across the same window.

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