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Enrollment
594
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000499
Hollin Meadows Elementary
2310 Nordok Place, Alexandria, VA 22306 · (703) 718-8300 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL594 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test 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.
- ·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
14.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
453 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 | 24 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 84 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (84).
Student demographics
73%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
57.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
57.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +17.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 up about 17 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.0% | 40.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Hollin Meadows Elementary
Hollin Meadows Elementary's state test result (54.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollin Meadows Elementary this school | 594 | 76.3% | 54.8% |
| Montclair Elementary Dumfries | 588 | 70.6% | 74.5% |
| Agnor Elementary Charlottesville | 523 | 70.9% | 63.3% |
| Washington Mill Elementary Alexandria | 592 | 78.9% | 61.5% |
| Chris Yung Elementary Bristow | 719 | 70.8% | 73.8% |
| Battlefield Elementary Fredericksburg | 665 | 73.4% | 65.8% |
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 Hollin Meadows Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #917 of 1,101 | #111 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #928 of 1,111 ▲ 32 | #113 of 136 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #908 of 1,111 ▼ 17 | #113 of 136 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 594 | #372 of 1,176 | #85 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #618 of 1,105 | #97 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.6% | #116 of 1,106 | #31 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.3% | #557 of 1,157 | #25 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.9% | #563 of 759 | #76 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
594
-33 (-5%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 495
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 594 | 41.8 | 14.2:1 | 76% (453) |
| 2023-24 | 622 | 43.8 | 14.2:1 | 73% (457) |
| 2022-23 | 607 | 46.8 | 13.0:1 | 66% (402) |
| 2020-21 | 627 | 53 | 11.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 638 | 46.7 | 13.7:1 | 54% (347) |
| 2015-16 | 651 | 47 | 13.8:1 | 50% (324) |
| 2010-11 | 660 | 44 | 15.0:1 | 45% (300) |
| 2000-01 | 512 | 37 | 13.8:1 | 42% (217) |
| 1990-91 | 495 | 30 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hollin Meadows Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (638 to 594); teachers down 10% (46.7 to 41.8).
About Hollin Meadows Elementary
Hollin Meadows Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in Alexandria, Virginia. It is open to students in pre-K through 6 and enrolls 594 students.
The Fairfax County Public Schools system has 199 schools and 179,323 students.
No group is above 50% at Hollin Meadows Elementary; the largest is Hispanic, at 38%. Other reported shares: 28% White, 19% Black, 11% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Fairfax County's residents are about 18% Hispanic, 20 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Hollin Meadows Elementary scores 73%.
On staff are 41.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. It is about the same as the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. About 76% of students at Hollin Meadows Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 37% average for public schools in Fairfax County.
Hollin Meadows Elementary earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 14% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Hollin Meadows Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of Virginia schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 54.8% and a predicted 67.3%.
For Fairfax County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $153,637 a year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Fairfax County number 222, with about 174,475 students.
Whitman Middle is about 0.6 miles from Hollin Meadows Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Hollin Meadows Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 60.6%, higher than Hollin Meadows Elementary's 54.8%.
Hollin Meadows Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 5%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 11.8:1 in 2020-21, and 14.2:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for Hollin Meadows Elementary is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
Nearby schools
- Whitman Middle0.6 mi · 828
- Bryant High1.0 mi · 154
- Hybla Valley Elementary1.2 mi · 878
- Bucknell Elementary1.2 mi · 319
- Stratford Landing Elementary1.5 mi · 669
- Sandburg Middle1.6 mi · 1,401
Frequently asked questions
About Hollin Meadows ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Hollin Meadows Elementary?
Hollin Meadows Elementary enrolls approximately 594 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Hollin Meadows Elementary serve?
Hollin Meadows Elementary serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hollin Meadows Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hollin Meadows Elementary is approximately 14.2:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hollin Meadows Elementary?
At Hollin Meadows Elementary, the student body is approximately 28% White, 38% Hispanic, 19% Black, 11% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Hollin Meadows Elementary public or private?
Hollin Meadows Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.