Hutchison Elementary

Hutchison Elementary is a primary school of high-enrollment scale in Herndon, Virginia, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools, teacheing 970 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Hutchison Elementary sits 94% above that benchmark.

Across the 199 schools in Fairfax County Public Schools (179,323 students total), Hutchison Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Hutchison Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 7% Asian, 6% Black, 4% White, 2% Native American. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Fairfax County's rate of about 37%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hutchison Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 63.0%; actual is 38.5%, a gap of -24.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Hutchison Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Coates Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hutchison Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hutchison Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.7%.

Hutchison Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Hutchison Elementary's enrollment has fell 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,023 (now 970). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 74% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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