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What's the biggest difference between Park Ridge Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
908
Elementary
DISTRICT 727 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·STAFFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510366002201
Park Ridge Elementary
2000 Parkway Blvd, Stafford, VA 22554 · (540) 658-6320 · Stafford County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL908 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% 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
16.2:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
306 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 147 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 148 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 154 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 146 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 159 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 154 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (147) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (154).
Student demographics
75%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
67.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
Math
73.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 2 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 67.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.0% | 71.0% |
% 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
63.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.9%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 79% 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 Park Ridge Elementary
Park Ridge Elementary's state test result (63.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Ridge Elementary this school | 908 | 33.7% | 63.5% |
| Winding Creek Elementary Stafford | 840 | 35.0% | 76.8% |
| Stafford Elementary Stafford | 879 | 42.8% | 66.4% |
| Deep Creek Central Elementary Chesapeake | 888 | 22.5% | 85.0% |
| Lane Elementary Alexandria | 716 | 26.1% | 69.7% |
| Oakridge Elementary Arlington | 636 | 31.9% | 70.3% |
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 Park Ridge Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Stafford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #750 of 1,101 | #11 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #608 of 1,111 ▲ 92 | #9 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #689 of 1,111 ▲ 67 | #11 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 908 | #32 of 1,176 | #2 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #947 of 1,105 | #17 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.8% | #61 of 1,106 | #7 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.7% | #910 of 1,157 | #15 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +26.1% | #36 of 324 | #1 of 11 |
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
908
+83 (+10%) vs 2020
+80% since 1990-91, when it was 504
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 908 | 56 | 16.2:1 | 34% (306) |
| 2023-24 | 879 | 56 | 15.7:1 | 34% (300) |
| 2022-23 | 865 | 50 | 17.3:1 | 27% (233) |
| 2020-21 | 825 | 45 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 720 | 39 | 18.5:1 | 29% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 751 | 40 | 18.8:1 | 24% (179) |
| 2010-11 | 657 | 36 | 18.3:1 | 15% (98) |
| 2000-01 | 936 | 51 | 18.4:1 | 9% (84) |
| 1990-91 | 504 | 30 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Park Ridge Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 26% (720 to 908); teachers up 44% (39 to 56).
About Park Ridge Elementary
In Stafford, Virginia, Park Ridge Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school. Enrollment stands at 908 students, covering kindergarten through 5. That is 82% larger than the average of about 499 students for elementary schools in Virginia.
Stafford County Public Schools has a total of 32 schools and 31,812 students, Park Ridge Elementary among them.
White students account for 33% of enrollment at Park Ridge Elementary, more than any other group. Other groups make up 31% Black, 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 7% Asian. County-wide, 54% of Stafford County residents are White. The diversity index for Park Ridge Elementary is 75%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 16.2 students per teacher. Compared with the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia, this school's ratio is higher. Roughly 34% of students at Park Ridge Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 45% for public schools in Stafford County.
Park Ridge Elementary holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 22% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Park Ridge Elementary ranks in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 63.5%. Predicted: 78.9%. Difference: 15.4 points.
For the population of Stafford County, median household income comes to about $137,807, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stafford County counts 41 public schools with about 31,812 students.
About 0.4 miles separate Park Ridge Elementary from the closest public school, North Stafford High. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 71.5% on proficiency, and Park Ridge Elementary is below that at 63.5%.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Park Ridge Elementary had a net gain of 83 students, or 10%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 18.3:1 in 2020-21, and 16.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Stafford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
163,466
Census ACS
Median income
$137,807
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
31,812 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Stafford County Public Schools
- Mountain View HighHigh · 2,233 students
- Brooke Point HighHigh · 2,199 students
- Stafford Senior HighHigh · 2,198 students
- Colonial Forge HighHigh · 2,122 students
- North Stafford HighHigh · 1,982 students
- Rodney E. Thompson MiddleMiddle · 1,063 students
Other schools in Stafford
- Mountain View HighHigh · 2,233 students
- Brooke Point HighHigh · 2,199 students
- Colonial Forge HighHigh · 2,122 students
- North Stafford HighHigh · 1,982 students
- Rodney E. Thompson MiddleMiddle · 1,063 students
- H.H. Poole MiddleMiddle · 995 students
Other Park Ridge Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Park Ridge Elementary. Park Ridge Elementary is the largest of the 3.
- PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPOMPANO BEACH, FL · 549 students
- PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARYNAMPA, ID · 491 students
Nearby schools
- North Stafford High0.4 mi · 1,982
- North Star Early Childhood Education Center0.9 mi · 264
- H.H. Poole Middle1.0 mi · 995
- Rodney E. Thompson Middle1.2 mi · 1,063
- Kate Waller Barrett Elementary1.5 mi · 838
- Winding Creek Elementary1.6 mi · 840
Frequently asked questions
About Park Ridge ElementaryHow large is Park Ridge Elementary?
Park Ridge Elementary enrolls approximately 908 students in grades KG-05.
Is Park Ridge Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Park Ridge Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Park Ridge Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Park Ridge Elementary is approximately 16.2:1 (56 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Park Ridge Elementary?
Park Ridge Elementary reports a student body of 33% White, 19% Hispanic, 31% Black, 7% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Park Ridge Elementary?
Park Ridge Elementary is overseen by Stafford County Public Schools in Stafford County.
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