Kings Glen Elementary

Located at 5401 Danbury Forest Dr, in Springfield, Virginia, Kings Glen Elementary is a tight-knit middle-grades school that works with 476 students (grades 4 through 6), overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools. That puts it 37% smaller than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 750 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Kings Glen Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Fairfax County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kings Glen Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 80.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.8%.

In the surrounding community, Fairfax County reports that the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Kings Glen Elementary is one.

Kings Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kings Glen Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 74.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kings Glen Elementary has ticked down 4%, going from 495 students in 2018 to 476 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 44% across the same window.

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