Lemon Road Elementary

Lemon Road Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Falls Church, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, with 595 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Within Fairfax County Public Schools, which oversees 199 schools and 179,323 students, Lemon Road Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lemon Road Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, On paper, Lemon Road Elementary has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Lemon Road Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lemon Road Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 82.9%; this one delivers 86.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate median household income runs about $153,637, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Fairfax County runs 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), of which Lemon Road Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Meridian High, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lemon Road Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 83.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lemon Road Elementary has contracted 3%, going from 616 students in 2018 to 595 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 37% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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