Kent Gardens Elementary

Kent Gardens Elementary is an elementary school of high-enrollment scale in McLean, Virginia, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools, enrolling 918 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 84% above the state mean of about 499.

Fairfax County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 179,323 students; Kent Gardens Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Kent Gardens Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 26% Asian, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 4% of students at Kent Gardens Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kent Gardens Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 87.0%, the actual is 94.5%, a residual of +7.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fairfax County) reports that median household earnings sit near $153,637, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fairfax County runs 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), of which Kent Gardens Elementary is one.

McLean High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kent Gardens Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 87.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kent Gardens Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,025 (now 918). The White share of enrollment contracted from 64% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Kent Gardens Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.