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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Piney Branch Elementary administration to hear?
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Enrollment
760
Elementary
DISTRICT 636 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510313002851
Piney Branch Elementary
8301 Linton Hall Road, Bristow, VA 20136 · (571) 261-5300 · Prince William County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL760 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 71% 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
17.5:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
163 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 102 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 142 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
70%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
83.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
85.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +0.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 have held steady.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 87.0% |
| 2022-23 | 83.0% | 85.0% |
% 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
84.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
82.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% 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 Piney Branch Elementary
Piney Branch Elementary's state test result (84.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piney Branch Elementary this school | 760 | 21.4% | 84.3% |
| Hunters Woods Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences Reston | 726 | 22.9% | 84.5% |
| New Castle Elementary Virginia Beach | 728 | 23.1% | 86.4% |
| Cub Run Elementary Centreville | 620 | 23.9% | 74.5% |
| Bonnie Brae Elementary Fairfax | 718 | 24.7% | 77.2% |
| Keene Mill Elementary Springfield | 813 | 20.5% | 89.0% |
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 Piney Branch Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Prince William County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.3% | #199 of 1,101 | #15 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #258 of 1,111 ▼ 92 | #15 of 64 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #248 of 1,111 ▼ 71 | #14 of 64 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 760 | #125 of 1,176 | #13 of 64 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #1,048 of 1,105 | #55 of 64 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #241 of 1,106 | #31 of 64 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.4% | #1,018 of 1,157 | #59 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #457 of 759 | #28 of 45 |
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
760
+21 (+3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 760 | 43.4 | 17.5:1 | 21% (163) |
| 2023-24 | 777 | 45.5 | 17.1:1 | 20% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 766 | 45.5 | 16.8:1 | 19% (145) |
| 2020-21 | 739 | 46 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 844 | 48.7 | 17.3:1 | 16% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 771 | 41 | 18.8:1 | 14% (111) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Piney Branch Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (844 to 760); teachers down 11% (48.7 to 43.4).
About Piney Branch Elementary
Piney Branch Elementary is a large elementary school in Virginia, located in Bristow. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 760 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Virginia is roughly 499 students; this school is 52% above that.
Prince William County Public Schools has 95 schools and 90,242 students, and Piney Branch Elementary is one of those schools.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Piney Branch Elementary is White (48%). The remaining students are 20% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 7% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Piney Branch Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 70%.
Piney Branch Elementary's 43.4 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 17.5:1. That ratio is over the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 21%. The gap from the 55% average for public schools in Prince William County is 34 points.
The allk12 Grade for Piney Branch Elementary is B+. Compared with Virginia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 71% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Piney Branch Elementary is +2.0 points: 84.3% actual, 82.3% predicted.
In Prince William County (population about 488,880), median household income is about $131,402, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 102 public schools operate in Prince William County, serving about 89,591 students.
Gainesville Middle is located about 0.6 miles from Piney Branch Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 83.2% proficiency; Piney Branch Elementary posts 84.3%.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 739 to 760. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 16.1:1 to 17.5:1.
Discussions about Piney Branch Elementary may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Prince William County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
488,880
Census ACS
Median income
$131,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
102
89,591 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 Bristow
- E.H. Marsteller MiddleMiddle · 1,153 students
- Chris Yung ElementaryElementary · 719 students
- Victory ElementaryElementary · 661 students
- Bristow Run ElementaryElementary · 562 students
- Cedar Point ElementaryElementary · 510 students
Other Piney Branch Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Piney Branch Elementary. Piney Branch Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Piney Branch ElementaryTakoma Park, MD · 575 students
Nearby schools
- Gainesville Middle0.6 mi · 1,403
- Gainesville High0.6 mi · 2,648
- Bristow Run Elementary0.9 mi · 562
- Chris Yung Elementary1.2 mi · 719
- Glenkirk Elementary1.3 mi · 554
- Victory Elementary2.6 mi · 661
Frequently asked questions
About Piney Branch ElementaryHow large is Piney Branch Elementary?
Piney Branch Elementary enrolls approximately 760 students in grades PK-05.
Is Piney Branch Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Piney Branch Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Piney Branch Elementary have?
Piney Branch Elementary employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Piney Branch Elementary?
At Piney Branch Elementary, the student body is approximately 48% White, 15% Hispanic, 7% Black, 20% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Piney Branch Elementary in?
Piney Branch Elementary is part of Prince William County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.