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Enrollment
679
Elementary
DISTRICT 636 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510313002798
Mary G. Porter Traditional
15311 Forest Grove Drive, Woodbridge, VA 22191 · (703) 580-6501 · Prince William County
GRADES 01–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL679 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Virginia public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
252 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 82 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 88 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 88 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 86 | 13% |
This year's 1st grade class (82) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (86).
Student demographics
71%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
94.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
96.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 94.0% | 96.0% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 97.0% |
| 2022-23 | 96.0% | 94.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
95.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 96% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 78% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Virginia's top 10%.
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 Mary G. Porter Traditional
Mary G. Porter Traditional's state test result (95.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary G. Porter Traditional this school | 679 | 37.1% | 95.5% |
| Laurel Hill Elementary Lorton | 743 | 29.9% | 84.3% |
| Halley Elementary Fairfax Station | 608 | 41.1% | 69.7% |
| Hoffman-Boston Elementary Arlington | 592 | 43.8% | 62.5% |
| Pennington Traditional Manassas | 651 | 31.8% | 92.9% |
| Gunston Elementary Lorton | 530 | 39.4% | 78.0% |
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 Mary G. Porter Traditional ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Prince William County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 95.5% | #6 of 1,101 | #1 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 96.0% | #15 of 1,111 ▼ 8 | #1 of 64 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #22 of 1,111 ▼ 16 | #1 of 64 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 679 | #221 of 1,176 | #22 of 64 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #985 of 1,105 | #48 of 64 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #200 of 1,106 | #28 of 64 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.1% | #880 of 1,157 | #49 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.6% | #748 of 759 | #45 of 45 |
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
679
-2 (0%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 659
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 679 | 41 | 16.6:1 | 37% (252) |
| 2023-24 | 675 | 41 | 16.5:1 | 35% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 672 | 40.8 | 16.5:1 | 30% (201) |
| 2020-21 | 681 | 37 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 683 | 38.7 | 17.6:1 | 26% (178) |
| 2015-16 | 685 | 39 | 17.6:1 | 20% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 659 | 32 | 20.6:1 | 18% (116) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mary G. Porter Traditional.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (683 to 679); teachers up 6% (38.7 to 41).
About Mary G. Porter Traditional
Mary G. Porter Traditional is an elementary school in Woodbridge, Virginia, and it is part of Prince William County Public Schools. Classes run from 1 through 8, and the school has 679 students. Against the 499-student average for elementary schools in Virginia, enrollment here is 36% higher.
Mary G. Porter Traditional sits within Prince William County Public Schools, which has 95 schools and 90,242 students.
At Mary G. Porter Traditional, the largest share of students is Black, at 46%. Other reported shares: 22% Asian, 14% White, 11% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. That compares with about 20% Black among all Prince William County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 16.6 students per teacher. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 37%. Compared with the 55% average for public schools in Prince William County, the school's rate is lower.
Mary G. Porter Traditional is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 99% of Virginia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Mary G. Porter Traditional scores 17.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 95.5% actual versus 78.0% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of Virginia schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the county around the school, Prince William County, the median household income is $131,402, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Prince William County is home to 102 public schools and about 89,591 public school students.
Rippon Middle is the closest public school, about 0.6 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Mary G. Porter Traditional. On state test proficiency, Mary G. Porter Traditional ranks 1st in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (681) and 2024-25 (679). Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 16.6:1, from 18.4:1.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Prince William County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
488,880
Census ACS
Median income
$131,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
102
89,591 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince William County Public Schools
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Gainesville HighHigh · 2,648 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
Other schools in Woodbridge
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 2,303 students
- C.D. Hylton HighHigh · 1,859 students
- Lake Ridge MiddleMiddle · 1,487 students
Nearby schools
- Rippon Middle0.6 mi · 1,200
- Freedom High0.7 mi · 2,303
- Leesylvania Elementary1.0 mi · 759
- Featherstone Elementary1.1 mi · 452
- Potomac View Elementary1.7 mi · 557
- Fannie W. Fitzgerald Elementary1.8 mi · 829
Frequently asked questions
About Mary G. Porter TraditionalHow many students attend Mary G. Porter Traditional?
Mary G. Porter Traditional enrolls approximately 679 students in grades 01-08.
Is Mary G. Porter Traditional an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mary G. Porter Traditional is an elementary school covering grades 01-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mary G. Porter Traditional?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mary G. Porter Traditional is approximately 16.6:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Mary G. Porter Traditional?
Student demographics at Mary G. Porter Traditional are roughly 14% White, 11% Hispanic, 46% Black, 22% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Mary G. Porter Traditional in?
Mary G. Porter Traditional is part of Prince William County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.