Mountain View Elementary

Located at 5600 McLeod Way, in Haymarket, Virginia, Mountain View Elementary is a modestly sized K-5 school that hosts 418 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Prince William County Public Schools.

Prince William County Public Schools runs 95 schools in total, collectively educating 90,242 students. Mountain View Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mountain View Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 15% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Prince William County as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Mountain View Elementary logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at Mountain View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Prince William County's rate of about 55%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mountain View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.1%, the actual is 84.0%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Prince William County put the typical household earns roughly $131,402 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Prince William County runs 102 public schools (combined enrollment of about 89,591 students), of which Mountain View Elementary is one.

Battlefield High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain View Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain View Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 84.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 29%: 587 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 51% across the same window.

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