Patrick Henry K-8 School

Patrick Henry K-8 School, a large primary school in Alexandria, Virginia, run under Alexandria City Public Schools, hosts 1,075 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 115% bigger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Alexandria City Public Schools comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 16,575 students; Patrick Henry K-8 School is among them.

On demographics, Patrick Henry K-8 School records that the largest single group is Black at 32%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 28% Hispanic, 20% White, 9% multiracial, 9% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alexandria city (around 69%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Patrick Henry K-8 School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.7%; this one delivers 63.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Alexandria city shows median household income runs about $119,681, 66% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Alexandria city runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,575 students), of which Patrick Henry K-8 School is one.

Nearest neighbor: James K. Polk Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Patrick Henry K-8 School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Patrick Henry K-8 School has expanded 59%, going from 675 students in 2018 to 1,075 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 47% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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