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Alumni: what's one memory from Lynbrook Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
595
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000531
Lynbrook Elementary
5801 Backlick Rd, Springfield, VA 22150 · (703) 866-2940 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL595 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
556 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 | 60 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 74 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 22% larger than its 6th grade class (74).
Student demographics
25%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
39.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +2.0pp since 2022
Math
37.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 35.0% |
| 2022-23 | 37.0% | 40.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
37.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.7%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Lynbrook Elementary
Lynbrook Elementary's state test result (37.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynbrook Elementary this school | 595 | 93.4% | 37.3% |
| Guilford Elementary Sterling | 504 | 99.4% | 37.5% |
| Sully Elementary Sterling | 476 | 99.4% | 42.6% |
| Graham Road Elementary Falls Church | 438 | 92.7% | 40.5% |
| Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences Falls Church | 539 | 87.6% | 46.7% |
| Weems Elementary Manassas | 556 | 86.3% | 57.0% |
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 Lynbrook Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #1,078 of 1,101 | #136 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,091 of 1,111 ▲ 2 | #136 of 136 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,086 of 1,111 ▲ 19 | #135 of 136 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 595 | #370 of 1,176 | #84 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #236 of 1,105 | #31 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.4% | #1,015 of 1,106 | #143 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.4% | #274 of 1,157 | #8 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.6% | #595 of 759 | #81 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
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
+48% since 1990-91, when it was 403
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 48 | 12.4:1 | 93% (556) |
| 2023-24 | 602 | 47 | 12.8:1 | 87% (522) |
| 2022-23 | 613 | 46 | 13.3:1 | 92% (567) |
| 2020-21 | 593 | 53 | 11.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 630 | 54.6 | 11.6:1 | 84% (527) |
| 2015-16 | 654 | 56 | 11.7:1 | 85% (553) |
| 2010-11 | 483 | 42 | 11.5:1 | 77% (374) |
| 2000-01 | 423 | 30 | 14.1:1 | 47% (198) |
| 1990-91 | 403 | 29 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lynbrook Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (630 to 595); teachers down 12% (54.6 to 48).
About Lynbrook Elementary
A mid-sized elementary school in Springfield, Virginia, Lynbrook Elementary is part of Fairfax County Public Schools. Enrollment stands at 595 students, covering pre-K through 6.
Fairfax County Public Schools operates 199 schools. Combined enrollment is 179,323 students.
Of every 100 students at Lynbrook Elementary, about 86 are Hispanic. The remaining students are 8% Asian and 4% White. Census figures show Fairfax County is about 18% Hispanic. A diversity index of 25% means there is a 25% chance two randomly chosen students at Lynbrook Elementary are from different groups.
A staff of 48 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 12.4:1. The gap from the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia is 1.5 students per teacher. By family income, 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 37% average for public schools in Fairfax County is 56 points lower.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 37.3%, is 25.3 points below the 62.7% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools.
For Fairfax County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $153,637, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 65%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. The county has 222 public schools and about 174,475 students.
Crestwood Elementary is the nearest public school to Lynbrook Elementary, about 0.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 59.6% proficiency; Lynbrook Elementary posts 37.3%.
Lynbrook Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 593 to 595. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 11.2:1 to 12.4:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Springfield
- West Springfield HighHigh · 2,799 students
- Lewis HighHigh · 1,658 students
- Irving MiddleMiddle · 1,204 students
- Sangster ElementaryElementary · 928 students
- Orange Hunt ElementaryElementary · 874 students
- Keene Mill ElementaryElementary · 813 students
Nearby schools
- Crestwood Elementary0.6 mi · 582
- Fairfax County Adult High1.0 mi · 226
- Garfield Elementary1.0 mi · 315
- Lewis High1.2 mi · 1,658
- Springfield Estates Elementary1.3 mi · 596
- North Springfield Elementary1.3 mi · 465
Frequently asked questions
About Lynbrook ElementaryHow many students attend Lynbrook Elementary?
Lynbrook Elementary enrolls approximately 595 students in grades PK-06.
Is Lynbrook Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lynbrook Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lynbrook Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lynbrook Elementary is approximately 12.4:1 (48 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lynbrook Elementary?
Lynbrook Elementary reports a student body of 4% White, 86% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Lynbrook Elementary in?
Lynbrook Elementary is part of Fairfax County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.