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Enrollment
507
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000543
Mount Vernon Woods Elementary
4015 Fielding St, Alexandria, VA 22309 · (703) 619-2800 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL507 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Virginia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
12.0:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
495 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 | 50 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 19% smaller than its 6th grade class (78).
Student demographics
54%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
54.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
Math
49.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 7 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 53.0% | 42.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 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 Mount Vernon Woods Elementary
Mount Vernon Woods Elementary's state test result (48.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon Woods Elementary this school | 507 | 97.6% | 48.3% |
| Preston Park Elementary Roanoke | 535 | 98.3% | 40.5% |
| Weyanoke Elementary Alexandria | 590 | 97.1% | 43.2% |
| George Carr Round Elementary Manassas | 512 | 88.9% | 61.3% |
| Rolling Ridge Elementary Sterling | 562 | 99.5% | 60.1% |
| Forest Grove Elementary Sterling | 529 | 99.4% | 59.5% |
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 Mount Vernon Woods Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #999 of 1,101 | #122 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,028 of 1,111 ▲ 30 | #130 of 136 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #949 of 1,111 ▲ 62 | #114 of 136 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 507 | #559 of 1,176 | #115 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #174 of 1,105 | #20 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.0% | #692 of 1,106 | #123 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.6% | #222 of 1,157 | #4 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.6% | #65 of 759 | #7 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
507
-107 (-17%) vs 2020
+11% since 1990-91, when it was 455
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 507 | 42.2 | 12.0:1 | 98% (495) |
| 2023-24 | 546 | 50.2 | 10.9:1 | 84% (460) |
| 2022-23 | 574 | 43.8 | 13.1:1 | 77% (441) |
| 2020-21 | 614 | 51 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 700 | 53 | 13.2:1 | 81% (565) |
| 2015-16 | 689 | 50 | 13.8:1 | 79% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 47 | 11.8:1 | 82% (451) |
| 2000-01 | 531 | 41 | 12.9:1 | 72% (383) |
| 1990-91 | 455 | 25 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount Vernon Woods Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (700 to 507); teachers down 20% (53 to 42.2).
About Mount Vernon Woods Elementary
As a mid-sized elementary school, Mount Vernon Woods Elementary serves students in Alexandria, Virginia. The school counted 507 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 6.
The 199 schools of Fairfax County Public Schools, including Mount Vernon Woods Elementary, enroll 179,323 students.
About 64% of the student body at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary is Hispanic. Other students are 22% Black, 8% Asian, 4% White, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfax County residents are about 18% Hispanic. A diversity index of 54% means there is a 54% chance two randomly chosen students at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary are from different groups.
On staff are 42.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Virginia is 13.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 98% of students at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Fairfax County average 37%.
Among Virginia public elementary schools, Mount Vernon Woods Elementary outscored 11%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Virginia schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Mount Vernon Woods Elementary's results are 13.2 points below predicted: 48.3% against 61.5%.
The school is in Fairfax County, where the median household earns about $153,637 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 65% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Mount Vernon Woods Elementary shares Fairfax County with 221 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Riverside Elementary, is about 0.9 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Mount Vernon Woods Elementary is 9th on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 614 (2020-21) to 507 (2024-25).
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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 Alexandria
- Alexandria City HighHigh · 4,655 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- West Potomac HighHigh · 2,710 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,294 students
- Thomas Jefferson High for Science and TechnologyHigh · 2,108 students
- Mount Vernon HighHigh · 1,858 students
Nearby schools
- Riverside Elementary0.9 mi · 741
- Mount Vernon High1.2 mi · 1,858
- Hybla Valley Elementary1.3 mi · 878
- Whitman Middle1.4 mi · 828
- Woodlawn Elementary1.5 mi · 447
- Woodley Hills Elementary1.6 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About Mount Vernon Woods ElementaryHow many students attend Mount Vernon Woods Elementary?
Mount Vernon Woods Elementary enrolls approximately 507 students in grades PK-06.
Is Mount Vernon Woods Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mount Vernon Woods Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Mount Vernon Woods Elementary have?
Mount Vernon Woods Elementary employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary?
At Mount Vernon Woods Elementary, the student body is approximately 4% White, 64% Hispanic, 22% Black, 8% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Mount Vernon Woods Elementary public or private?
Mount Vernon Woods Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.