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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the PENNINGTON TRADITIONAL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
651
Elementary
DISTRICT 636 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510313002418
Pennington Traditional
9305 Stonewall Rd., Manassas, VA 20110 · (703) 369-6644 · Manassas city
GRADES 01–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL651 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- ABeats 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
17.4:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
207 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 72 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 80 | 12% |
This year's 1st grade class (72) is 10% smaller than its 8th grade class (80).
Student demographics
77%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
93.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
96.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 96.0% |
| 2023-24 | 91.0% | 94.0% |
| 2022-23 | 93.0% | 94.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
79.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 93% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 79% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 13 points, placing it in Virginia's top 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 Pennington Traditional
Pennington Traditional's state test result (92.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennington Traditional this school | 651 | 31.8% | 92.9% |
| Discovery Elementary Ashburn | 639 | 33.8% | 73.4% |
| Arlington Traditional Arlington | 624 | 35.3% | 93.9% |
| Salem Elementary Virginia Beach | 541 | 33.8% | 82.0% |
| Buckland Mills Elementary Gainesville | 735 | 30.2% | 82.3% |
| Laurel Hill Elementary Lorton | 743 | 29.9% | 84.3% |
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 Pennington Traditional ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Manassas city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.9% | #20 of 1,101 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 96.0% | #14 of 1,111 ▲ 7 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #33 of 1,111 ▲ 20 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 651 | #263 of 1,176 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,040 of 1,105 | #6 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.7% | #19 of 1,106 | #1 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.8% | #927 of 1,157 | #6 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.2% | #296 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
651
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 631
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 651 | 37.4 | 17.4:1 | 32% (207) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 37.1 | 17.5:1 | 30% (195) |
| 2022-23 | 654 | 37.5 | 17.4:1 | 28% (183) |
| 2020-21 | 657 | 39 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 643 | 36.8 | 17.4:1 | 17% (108) |
| 2015-16 | 648 | 36 | 18.0:1 | 17% (110) |
| 2010-11 | 631 | 34 | 18.6:1 | 9% (56) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pennington Traditional.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (643 to 651); teachers up 1% (36.8 to 37.4).
About Pennington Traditional
Pennington Traditional is a medium-sized elementary school for students in Manassas, Virginia. The school serves 651 students in grades 1 through 8 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Virginia is roughly 499 students; this school is 30% bigger than that.
Pennington Traditional is in Prince William County Public Schools, a district with 90,242 students across 95 schools.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Pennington Traditional is White (29%). Other groups make up 27% Asian, 22% Black, 16% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Manassas city as a whole is about 43% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at Pennington Traditional belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 77%.
Teacher staffing is 37.4 full-time equivalents, or about 17.4 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in Virginia, the typical ratio is 13.8:1. About 32% of students, or 207, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 78% for public schools in Manassas city.
The allk12 Grade for Pennington Traditional is A+. Compared with Virginia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 98% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Pennington Traditional is 13.4 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Virginia.
Across Manassas city, median household income is about $113,590, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The public schools of Manassas city number 12 and enroll about 7,996.
The nearest other public school, Jennie Dean Elementary, is about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 53.7%; Pennington Traditional's is 92.9%, ranking 1st of 9.
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.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 651, starting from 657.
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Manassas city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,976
Census ACS
Median income
$113,590
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
12
7,996 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince William County Public Schools
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Gainesville HighHigh · 2,648 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
Other schools in Manassas
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Osbourn HighHigh · 2,301 students
- Unity Reed HighHigh · 2,042 students
- Parkside MiddleMiddle · 1,352 students
- Louise A. Benton MiddleMiddle · 1,339 students
Nearby schools
- Jennie Dean Elementary0.6 mi · 579
- Richard C. Haydon Elementary0.7 mi · 556
- Baldwin Elementary0.8 mi · 631
- Baldwin Intermediate0.9 mi · 260
- Osbourn High0.9 mi · 2,301
- Weems Elementary1.2 mi · 556
Frequently asked questions
About Pennington TraditionalHow large is Pennington Traditional?
Pennington Traditional enrolls approximately 651 students in grades 01-08.
Is Pennington Traditional an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pennington Traditional is an elementary school covering grades 01-08.
How many teachers does Pennington Traditional have?
Pennington Traditional employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Pennington Traditional?
Student demographics at Pennington Traditional are roughly 29% White, 16% Hispanic, 22% Black, 27% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Pennington Traditional?
Pennington Traditional is overseen by Prince William County Public Schools in Manassas city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.