Manassas Park Elementary

Manassas Park Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus in Manassas Park, Virginia, part of Manassas Park City Public Schools. The school instructs 712 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Manassas Park Elementary sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

Manassas Park City Public Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 3,392 students. Manassas Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Manassas Park Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 10% White, 7% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Manassas Park city as a whole is about 47% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Manassas Park Elementary has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Manassas Park Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Manassas Park Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 65.8%; actual is 48.5%, a gap of -17.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Manassas Park city shows the typical household earns roughly $103,250 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Manassas Park city's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,392 students), Manassas Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cougar Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Manassas Park Elementary at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 65.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 871 students in 2018 compared to 712 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 62% to 70% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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