Longfellow Middle

Longfellow Middle is one of the high-enrollment middle schools in Falls Church, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, with 1,226 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 750 students each, so Longfellow Middle sits 63% above that benchmark.

Fairfax County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 179,323 students; Longfellow Middle is among them.

On demographics, Longfellow Middle lists that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 30% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Fairfax County as a whole.

On the resource side, Longfellow Middle records 116 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Longfellow Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 11% of students at Longfellow Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Longfellow Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 85.2%; this one delivers 90.8%.

Around the school, Fairfax County reports that median household income runs about $153,637, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Longfellow Middle is one campus in the mix.

Haycock 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, Longfellow Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 91.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 1,364 students in 2018 compared to 1,226 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 53% to 45%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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