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What's something Orchard View Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
469
Elementary
DISTRICT 540 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510147002534
Orchard View Elementary
4275 Middle Rd, Winchester, VA 22602 · (540) 869-8642 · Frederick County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Virginia public elementary schools
- CTest 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
13.0:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
195 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 4 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
57.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -7.0pp since 2022
Math
65.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 7 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 65.0% |
| 2022-23 | 64.0% | 61.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
62.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 77% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Orchard View Elementary
Orchard View Elementary's state test result (62.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard View Elementary this school | 469 | 41.6% | 62.3% |
| John W. Wayland Elementary Bridgewater | 526 | 42.4% | 68.0% |
| Greenfield Elementary Troutville | 435 | 35.9% | 80.8% |
| Green Valley Elementary Roanoke | 483 | 44.3% | 81.0% |
| Cold Harbor Elementary Mechanicsville | 495 | 44.2% | 70.9% |
| Christiansburg Elementary Christiansburg | 401 | 42.6% | 75.0% |
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 Orchard View Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Frederick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #787 of 1,101 | #5 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #786 of 1,111 ▼ 47 | #6 of 12 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #909 of 1,111 ▼ 171 | #10 of 12 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #656 of 1,176 | #9 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #356 of 1,105 | #2 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.7% | #781 of 1,106 | #10 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.6% | #841 of 1,157 | #9 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.0% | #279 of 324 | N/A |
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
469
+38 (+9%) vs 2020
-1% since 2000-01, when it was 472
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 469 | 36 | 13.0:1 | 42% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 449 | 35 | 12.8:1 | 39% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 33 | 14.0:1 | 41% (189) |
| 2020-21 | 431 | 33 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 460 | 28.8 | 16.0:1 | 36% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 450 | 25 | 18.0:1 | 34% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 443 | 29 | 15.3:1 | 31% (138) |
| 2000-01 | 472 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 14% (67) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orchard View Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (460 to 469); teachers up 25% (28.8 to 36).
About Orchard View Elementary
Orchard View Elementary is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Winchester, Virginia. It teaches 469 students in pre-K through 5.
Frederick County Public Schools runs 19 schools with a combined 14,447 students. Orchard View Elementary is one of them.
White students are 69% of those enrolled at Orchard View Elementary. The next largest groups are 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Black. In Frederick County overall, about 80% of residents are White. A diversity index of 49% means there is a 49% chance two randomly chosen students at Orchard View Elementary are from different groups.
Based on 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, Orchard View Elementary has a ratio of 13.0:1. Across elementary schools in Virginia, the average ratio is 13.8:1. Income data for the school show 42% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Orchard View Elementary holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 21% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Orchard View Elementary falls short of its prediction by 14.5 points. The model expects 76.8% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Virginia; the school's rate is 62.3%.
Census data for Frederick County show the median household earns about $97,606 a year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Counting Orchard View Elementary, Frederick County has 20 public schools.
Bass-Hoover Elementary is about 3.1 miles from Orchard View Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Orchard View Elementary is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Orchard View Elementary is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment increased 9% over 4 years, reaching 469 in 2024-25.
People can post here about open houses, carpools, and field trips and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Frederick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
95,008
Census ACS
Median income
$97,606
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
13,574 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Frederick County Public Schools
- Sherando HighHigh · 1,631 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 1,550 students
- James Wood HighHigh · 1,462 students
- James Wood MiddleMiddle · 873 students
- Robert E. Aylor MiddleMiddle · 861 students
- Admiral Richard E. Byrd MiddleMiddle · 853 students
Other schools in Winchester
- Millbrook HighHigh · 1,550 students
- James Wood HighHigh · 1,462 students
- John Handley HighHigh · 1,361 students
- James Wood MiddleMiddle · 873 students
- Admiral Richard E. Byrd MiddleMiddle · 853 students
- Frederick County MiddleMiddle · 732 students
Other Orchard View Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Orchard View Elementary. Orchard View Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLDELRAY BEACH, FL · 679 students
- Orchard View Elementary SchoolGRAND RAPIDS, MI · 439 students
Nearby schools
- Bass-Hoover Elementary3.1 mi · 615
- Frederick Douglass Elementary3.5 mi · 376
- Sherando High4.2 mi · 1,631
- Armel Elementary4.7 mi · 589
- Robert E. Aylor Middle4.7 mi · 861
- Admiral Richard E. Byrd Middle4.8 mi · 853
Frequently asked questions
About Orchard View ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Orchard View Elementary?
Orchard View Elementary enrolls approximately 469 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Orchard View Elementary serve?
Orchard View Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Orchard View Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Orchard View Elementary is approximately 13.0:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Orchard View Elementary?
At Orchard View Elementary, the student body is approximately 69% White, 19% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Orchard View Elementary public or private?
Orchard View Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Frederick County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.