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What's the most underrated thing about Hutchison Farm Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
672
Elementary
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510225002286
Hutchison Farm Elementary
42819 Center St., South Riding, VA 20152 · (703) 957-4350 · Loudoun County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL672 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Virginia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.7:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
205 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 | 36 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 126 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (124).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
83.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
84.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 84.0% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 83.0% |
| 2022-23 | 78.0% | 81.0% |
% 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
82.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
79.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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 Hutchison Farm Elementary
Hutchison Farm Elementary's state test result (82.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hutchison Farm Elementary this school | 672 | 30.5% | 82.5% |
| Buckland Mills Elementary Gainesville | 735 | 30.2% | 82.3% |
| Cedar Lane Elementary Ashburn | 701 | 22.8% | 85.9% |
| Mosaic Elementary Fairfax | 927 | 26.6% | 85.5% |
| Arlington Traditional Arlington | 624 | 35.3% | 93.9% |
| Discovery Elementary Ashburn | 639 | 33.8% | 73.4% |
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 Hutchison Farm Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Loudoun County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.5% | #238 of 1,101 | #27 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #284 of 1,111 ▼ 22 | #29 of 59 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #240 of 1,111 ▲ 50 | #23 of 59 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 672 | #227 of 1,176 | #18 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #286 of 1,105 | #35 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.6% | #163 of 1,106 | #5 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.5% | #937 of 1,157 | #22 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.6% | #230 of 759 | #19 of 46 |
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
672
-24 (-3%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 841
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 672 | 52.9 | 12.7:1 | 31% (205) |
| 2023-24 | 660 | 51.6 | 12.8:1 | 33% (216) |
| 2022-23 | 668 | 51.8 | 12.9:1 | 30% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 696 | 49 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 816 | 48.5 | 16.8:1 | 16% (128) |
| 2015-16 | 786 | 47 | 16.7:1 | 8% (65) |
| 2010-11 | 841 | 42 | 20.0:1 | 6% (53) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hutchison Farm Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (816 to 672); teachers up 9% (48.5 to 52.9).
About Hutchison Farm Elementary
Hutchison Farm Elementary is a public elementary school run by Loudoun County Public Schools in South Riding, Virginia. Enrollment totals 672 students across pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 35% larger than the 499-student average for elementary schools in Virginia.
Loudoun County Public Schools is made up of 98 schools with 81,486 students in all.
No group is above 50% at Hutchison Farm Elementary; the largest is White, at 38%. After that, the student body is 33% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 6% multiracial. Among all residents of Loudoun County, the White share is about 53%. The diversity index for Hutchison Farm Elementary is 72%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 52.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1. Elementary schools in Virginia average 13.8:1, 1.1 more students per teacher than here. Hutchison Farm Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 31%. The average for public schools in Loudoun County is similar, at 28%.
Among Virginia public elementary schools, Hutchison Farm Elementary outscored 70%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Hutchison Farm 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 82.5% and a predicted 79.8%.
Census data for Loudoun County show median household income comes to about $181,765, about 65% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. There are 103 public schools in the county, enrolling about 81,486, Hutchison Farm Elementary among them.
Hutchison Farm Elementary's nearest public school is Freedom High (about 0.7 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, Hutchison Farm Elementary is 9th among 9 schools close by.
NCES assigns Hutchison Farm Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 696 to 672, a 3% decline. Federal data show the ratio falling from 14.2:1 to 12.7:1.
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Loudoun County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
432,998
Census ACS
Median income
$181,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
103
81,486 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Loudoun County Public Schools
- Independence HighHigh · 2,166 students
- Lightridge HighHigh · 2,030 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 1,885 students
- Briar Woods HighHigh · 1,862 students
- John Champe HighHigh · 1,851 students
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,710 students
Other schools in South Riding
- Freedom HighHigh · 1,885 students
- Liberty ElementaryElementary · 813 students
- Little River ElementaryElementary · 701 students
Nearby schools
- Freedom High0.7 mi · 1,885
- Liberty Elementary0.9 mi · 813
- J. Michael Lunsford Middle1.2 mi · 1,182
- Cardinal Ridge Elementary1.3 mi · 834
- Buffalo Trail Elementary1.5 mi · 756
- Mercer Middle1.5 mi · 1,459
Frequently asked questions
About Hutchison Farm ElementaryHow large is Hutchison Farm Elementary?
Hutchison Farm Elementary enrolls approximately 672 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hutchison Farm Elementary serve?
Hutchison Farm Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hutchison Farm Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hutchison Farm Elementary is approximately 12.7:1 (53 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hutchison Farm Elementary?
At Hutchison Farm Elementary, the student body is approximately 38% White, 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, 33% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Hutchison Farm Elementary public or private?
Hutchison Farm Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Loudoun County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.