Lake Braddock Secondary

Lake Braddock Secondary is one of the roomy four-year high schools in Burke, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, with 4,411 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Lake Braddock Secondary sits 264% above that benchmark.

Fairfax County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 179,323 students. Lake Braddock Secondary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lake Braddock Secondary logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 10% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfax County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lake Braddock Secondary lists 198 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at Lake Braddock Secondary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lake Braddock Secondary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.4%, the actual is 86.3%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Fairfax County shows the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Lake Braddock Secondary is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

The closest other public school is Kings Park Elementary, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lake Braddock Secondary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 80.5%.

Lake Braddock Secondary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 4,297 students in 2018 compared to 4,411 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.