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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
506
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510012000044
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School
1501 Cameron St, Alexandria, VA 22314 · (703) 706-4400 · Alexandria city
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL506 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of Virginia public elementary schools
- DTest 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
10.4:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
430 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 | 40 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 39 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 49 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 27% larger than its 8th grade class (49).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School→Alexandria City High
Based on grade levels within Alexandria City Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
56.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +8.0pp since 2022
Math
47.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 8 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 7 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 48.0% | 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 65% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School this school | 506 | 85.0% | 47.9% |
| Sheffield Elementary Lynchburg | 443 | 92.8% | 56.3% |
| Harrowgate Elementary Chester | 486 | 76.1% | 57.8% |
| Bayside Elementary Virginia Beach | 546 | 86.1% | 53.5% |
| Longdale Elementary Glen Allen | 476 | 89.3% | 57.5% |
| Cashell Donahoe Elementary Sandston | 526 | 89.2% | 49.5% |
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 Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Alexandria city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #1,007 of 1,101 | #12 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,045 of 1,111 ▲ 12 | #13 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #919 of 1,111 ▲ 40 | #10 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 506 | #562 of 1,176 | #10 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #40 of 1,105 | #1 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.3% | #319 of 1,106 | #8 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.0% | #431 of 1,157 | #5 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.6% | #164 of 759 | #6 of 11 |
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
506
-145 (-22%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 480
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 506 | 48.5 | 10.4:1 | 85% (430) |
| 2023-24 | 587 | 56 | 10.5:1 | 83% (486) |
| 2022-23 | 636 | 58 | 11.0:1 | 79% (504) |
| 2020-21 | 651 | 49 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 637 | 54.2 | 11.8:1 | 63% (399) |
| 2015-16 | 528 | 44 | 12.0:1 | 74% (389) |
| 2010-11 | 335 | 34 | 9.8:1 | 66% (221) |
| 2000-01 | 486 | 54 | 9.0:1 | 73% (354) |
| 1990-91 | 480 | 38 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (637 to 506); teachers down 10% (54.2 to 48.5).
About Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School is a medium-sized elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia. The school serves 506 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25.
Alexandria City Public Schools is responsible for 18 schools, Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School included, with 16,575 students in all.
Enrollment at Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School is mixed, with Black students the largest group at 47%. The rest of enrollment is 25% White, 20% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Alexandria city's population at about 21%. The chance that two students picked at random at Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 67%.
Teachers at the school number 48.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.4:1. Among elementary schools in Virginia, the typical ratio is 13.8:1. The school's lunch program data list 85% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 69% average for public schools in Alexandria city, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against Virginia public elementary schools, Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School posts 47.9% against a 65.0% prediction, a bottom-10% result in Virginia.
Federal survey data for Alexandria city show that median household income is about $119,681, about 66% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. A total of 20 public schools operate in Alexandria city, serving about 16,575 students.
George Washington Middle is the public school closest to Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School, about 0.5 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School places 9th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School falls in the City: Mid-size locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 22%, from 651 to 506. The ratio was 13.3:1 in 2020-21 and 10.4:1 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Alexandria city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
156,976
Census ACS
Median income
$119,681
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
66%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
16,575 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Alexandria City Public Schools
- Alexandria City HighHigh · 4,655 students
- Francis C. Hammond MiddleMiddle · 1,597 students
- George Washington MiddleMiddle · 1,458 students
- Patrick Henry K-8 SchoolElementary · 1,075 students
- Mount Vernon ElementaryElementary · 933 students
- James K. Polk ElementaryElementary · 804 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
- George Washington Middle0.5 mi · 1,458
- Naomi L. Brooks Elementary0.7 mi · 319
- Lyles-Crouch Elementary0.7 mi · 378
- Mount Vernon Elementary1.4 mi · 933
- Douglas MacArthur Elementary1.6 mi · 680
- George Mason Elementary1.7 mi · 332
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson-Houston PK-8 SchoolHow large is Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School?
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School enrolls approximately 506 students in grades PK-08.
Is Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School have?
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School?
Student demographics at Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School are roughly 25% White, 20% Hispanic, 47% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School in?
Jefferson-Houston PK-8 School is part of Alexandria City Public Schools.
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