Potowmack Elementary

Potowmack Elementary is a mid-sized primary school in Sterling, Virginia, overseen by Loudoun County Public Schools. The school instructs 568 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 98 schools in Loudoun County Public Schools (81,486 students total), Potowmack Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Potowmack Elementary shows that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 26% White, 10% Asian, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Loudoun County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at Potowmack Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Loudoun County (around 28%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Potowmack Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.8%.

Zooming out to the county, Loudoun County reports that median household income runs about $181,765, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Loudoun County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,486 students), of which Potowmack Elementary is one.

Horizon Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Potowmack Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Potowmack Elementary ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 73.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Potowmack Elementary's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 608 (now 568). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 30% to 49%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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