Innovation Elementary

Innovation Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus in Arlington, Virginia, run under Arlington County Public Schools. The school works with 483 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Arlington County Public Schools runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 27,950 students. Innovation Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Innovation Elementary shows that 32% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Asian, 19% Black, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Arlington County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Innovation Elementary has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Arlington County (around 31%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Innovation Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.5%, the actual is 78.0%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Arlington County put the typical household earns roughly $142,114 per year, 77% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Arlington County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,950 students), of which Innovation Elementary is one.

Arlington Science Focus School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Innovation Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 76.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Innovation Elementary has shrank 29%, going from 681 students in 2018 to 483 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 46% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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