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Marshall Road Elementary
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Marshall Road Elementary
Located at 730 Marshall Rd SW, in Vienna, Virginia, Marshall Road Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that teaches 691 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Marshall Road Elementary sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.
Fairfax County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 179,323 students. Marshall Road Elementary is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Marshall Road Elementary records that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 27% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Marshall Road Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 78.9%; Marshall Road Elementary posts 63.3%, -15.6 points below that line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fairfax County) records that the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Marshall Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Oakton High, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Marshall Road Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 85.3%.
Marshall Road Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marshall Road Elementary has edged down 6%, going from 736 students in 2018 to 691 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 16% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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