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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Lemon Road Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
595
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000522
Lemon Road Elementary
7230 Idylwood Rd, Falls Church, VA 22043 · (703) 714-6400 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL595 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Virginia public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
15.5:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
113 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 12 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 103 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 42% smaller than its 6th grade class (103).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
87.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -4.0pp since 2022
Math
88.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 88.0% |
| 2023-24 | 89.0% | 88.0% |
| 2022-23 | 91.0% | 91.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
86.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
82.9%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 83% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Lemon Road Elementary
Lemon Road Elementary's state test result (86.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lemon Road Elementary this school | 595 | 19.0% | 86.8% |
| Lees Corner Elementary Fairfax | 547 | 17.6% | 85.3% |
| Little River Elementary South Riding | 701 | 16.7% | 85.4% |
| Cedar Lane Elementary Ashburn | 701 | 22.8% | 85.9% |
| Hillside Elementary Ashburn | 656 | 16.6% | 86.9% |
| Greenbriar West Elementary Fairfax | 630 | 20.8% | 87.5% |
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 Lemon Road Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.8% | #119 of 1,101 | #32 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #159 of 1,111 ▼ 37 | #38 of 136 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #139 of 1,111 ▼ 65 | #41 of 136 ▼ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 595 | #369 of 1,176 | #83 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #853 of 1,105 | #117 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.3% | #99 of 1,106 | #23 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.0% | #1,034 of 1,157 | #94 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.4% | #660 of 759 | #91 of 110 |
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
595
+64 (+12%) vs 2020
+132% since 1990-91, when it was 256
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 595 | 38.4 | 15.5:1 | 19% (113) |
| 2023-24 | 577 | 38.4 | 15.0:1 | 18% (103) |
| 2022-23 | 538 | 38.5 | 14.0:1 | 16% (88) |
| 2020-21 | 531 | 37 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 616 | 37.3 | 16.5:1 | 19% (116) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 17% (98) |
| 2010-11 | 269 | 17 | 15.8:1 | 27% (73) |
| 2000-01 | 291 | 23 | 12.7:1 | 24% (69) |
| 1990-91 | 256 | 15 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lemon Road Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (616 to 595); teachers up 3% (37.3 to 38.4).
About Lemon Road Elementary
Lemon Road Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Falls Church, Virginia. The school runs pre-K through 6 and enrolls 595 students.
The 199 schools of Fairfax County Public Schools, including Lemon Road Elementary, enroll 179,323 students.
About 33% of students at Lemon Road Elementary are White, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 32% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 5% Black. Fairfax County's residents are about 49% White, 16 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 73, compared with 70 nationally.
Lemon Road Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1, with 38.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Virginia, 13.8:1, is lower. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 19% at Lemon Road Elementary. The average for public schools in Fairfax County is 37%.
Among Virginia public elementary schools, Lemon Road Elementary outscored 82%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Lemon Road Elementary is 3.9 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Virginia schools.
The school's county is Fairfax County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $153,637 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 65% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Public schools in Fairfax County number 222, with about 174,475 students.
Lemon Road Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Meridian High, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around Lemon Road Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Lemon Road Elementary ranks 4th of 7 nearby schools, at 86.8% versus an 83.0% average.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 12% rise, from 531 to 595. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.3:1 in 2020-21, and 15.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Fairfax County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,147,837
Census ACS
Median income
$153,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
222
174,475 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfax County Public Schools
- Lake Braddock SecondaryHigh · 4,411 students
- Robinson SecondaryHigh · 3,710 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- Chantilly HighHigh · 2,937 students
- West Springfield HighHigh · 2,799 students
- Westfield HighHigh · 2,737 students
Other schools in Falls Church
- Justice HighHigh · 2,357 students
- Marshall HighHigh · 2,200 students
- Falls Church HighHigh · 2,170 students
- Longfellow MiddleMiddle · 1,226 students
- Jackson MiddleMiddle · 991 students
- Meridian HighHigh · 893 students
Nearby schools
- Meridian High0.4 mi · 893
- Mary Ellen Henderson Middle0.5 mi · 632
- Mount Daniel Elementary0.9 mi · 486
- Marshall High0.9 mi · 2,200
- Pimmit Early Childhood Resource Center1.0 mi · 33
- Haycock Elementary1.2 mi · 838
Frequently asked questions
About Lemon Road ElementaryHow many students attend Lemon Road Elementary?
Lemon Road Elementary enrolls approximately 595 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Lemon Road Elementary serve?
Lemon Road Elementary serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lemon Road Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lemon Road Elementary is approximately 15.5:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lemon Road Elementary?
At Lemon Road Elementary, the student body is approximately 33% White, 21% Hispanic, 5% Black, 32% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Lemon Road Elementary public or private?
Lemon Road Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.