Lake Ridge Elementary

Lake Ridge Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in Woodbridge, Virginia, part of Prince William County Public Schools, with 671 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Lake Ridge Elementary sits 34% above that benchmark.

Lake Ridge Elementary is one of 95 schools operated by Prince William County Public Schools, a district that instructs 90,242 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lake Ridge Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Black, 23% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 10% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Prince William County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lake Ridge Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Prince William County indicate median household income runs about $131,402, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Prince William County runs 102 public schools (combined enrollment of about 89,591 students), of which Lake Ridge Elementary is one.

Lake Ridge Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lake Ridge Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 76.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Lake Ridge Elementary's enrollment has edged up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 590 (now 671). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 19% to 23%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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