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Alumni: what's one memory from Newton-Lee Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
505
Elementary
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510225002448
Newton-Lee Elementary
43335 Gloucester Parkway, Ashburg, VA 20147 · (571) 252-1535 · Loudoun County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL505 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% 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.
- B-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
12.2:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
114 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 | 36 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 45% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
79.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -9.0pp since 2022
Math
87.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 9 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 86.0% |
| 2022-23 | 88.0% | 88.0% |
% 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
82.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
82.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 82% 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 Newton-Lee Elementary
Newton-Lee Elementary's state test result (82.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton-Lee Elementary this school | 505 | 22.6% | 82.0% |
| Short Pump Elementary Richmond | 545 | 18.5% | 84.8% |
| Echo Lake Elementary Glen Allen | 506 | 28.7% | 85.7% |
| Lees Corner Elementary Fairfax | 547 | 17.6% | 85.3% |
| Glenkirk Elementary Gainesville | 554 | 18.2% | 89.8% |
| Hollymead Elementary Charlottesville | 452 | 22.3% | 85.6% |
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 Newton-Lee Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Loudoun County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #259 of 1,101 | #32 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #200 of 1,111 ▼ 14 | #19 of 59 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #359 of 1,111 ▼ 189 | #36 of 59 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 505 | #566 of 1,176 | #42 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #208 of 1,105 | #24 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.7% | #196 of 1,106 | #12 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.6% | #1,004 of 1,157 | #31 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.1% | #27 of 759 | #5 of 46 |
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
505
-43 (-8%) vs 2020
-46% since 2010-11, when it was 940
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 505 | 41.3 | 12.2:1 | 23% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 41.9 | 12.3:1 | 25% (127) |
| 2022-23 | 565 | 44.5 | 12.7:1 | 24% (136) |
| 2020-21 | 548 | 37 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 755 | 43.6 | 17.3:1 | 9% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 833 | 45 | 18.5:1 | 4% (34) |
| 2010-11 | 940 | 43 | 21.9:1 | 4% (37) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Newton-Lee Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (755 to 505); teachers down 5% (43.6 to 41.3).
About Newton-Lee Elementary
Newton-Lee Elementary is a public mid-sized elementary school in Ashburg, Virginia. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 505 students on the rolls.
Loudoun County Public Schools enrolls 81,486 students, and its 98 schools include Newton-Lee Elementary.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Newton-Lee Elementary is White, with 44% of students. Other groups include 27% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 7% multiracial. The county population is about 53% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Newton-Lee Elementary scores 71%.
With 41.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.2:1. Elementary schools in Virginia have an average ratio of 13.8:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Newton-Lee Elementary, 23% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Newton-Lee Elementary lands at B, ahead of 63% of Virginia public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Newton-Lee Elementary is within a point of its prediction. Actual: 82.0%. Predicted: 82.0%.
In the surrounding county, Loudoun County, the median household earns about $181,765 a year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Newton-Lee Elementary, Loudoun County has 103 public schools.
Trailside Middle is the nearest public school to Newton-Lee Elementary, about 0.1 miles away. Within five miles of Newton-Lee Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Newton-Lee Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Newton-Lee Elementary enrolled 548 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 505. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.2:1) than in 2020-21 (14.8:1).
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Loudoun County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
432,998
Census ACS
Median income
$181,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
103
81,486 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Loudoun County Public Schools
- Independence HighHigh · 2,166 students
- Lightridge HighHigh · 2,030 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 1,885 students
- Briar Woods HighHigh · 1,862 students
- John Champe HighHigh · 1,851 students
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,710 students
Nearby schools
- Trailside Middle0.1 mi · 1,131
- Belmont Station Elementary0.5 mi · 605
- Stone Bridge High0.6 mi · 1,629
- Sanders Corner Elementary1.4 mi · 503
- Cedar Lane Elementary1.5 mi · 701
- Ashburn Elementary1.5 mi · 513
Frequently asked questions
About Newton-Lee ElementaryHow large is Newton-Lee Elementary?
Newton-Lee Elementary enrolls approximately 505 students in grades PK-05.
Is Newton-Lee Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Newton-Lee Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Newton-Lee Elementary have?
Newton-Lee Elementary employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
How diverse is Newton-Lee Elementary?
Newton-Lee Elementary reports a student body of 44% White, 12% Hispanic, 9% Black, 27% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Newton-Lee Elementary?
Newton-Lee Elementary is overseen by Loudoun County Public Schools in Loudoun County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.