Mary Walter Elementary

As a compact K-5 school in Bealeton, Virginia, Mary Walter Elementary instructs 397 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Fauquier County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 20% smaller than the state mean of about 499.

Mary Walter Elementary is one of 18 schools operated by Fauquier County Public Schools, a district that serves 10,861 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mary Walter Elementary reports that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 34% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, Mary Walter Elementary shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Mary Walter Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at Mary Walter Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fauquier County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mary Walter Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.8%, the actual is 62.5%, a residual of -11.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Fauquier County shows median household earnings sit near $130,189, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mary Walter Elementary is one of 22 public schools in Fauquier County (combined enrollment of about 10,861 students).

Cedar Lee Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mary Walter Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 67.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary Walter Elementary has decreased 10%, going from 441 students in 2018 to 397 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 28% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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