Richard C. Haydon Elementary

Located at 9075 Park Ave, in Manassas, Virginia, Richard C. Haydon Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that instructs 556 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by Manassas City Public Schools.

Richard C. Haydon Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Manassas City Public Schools, a district that instructs 7,345 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Richard C. Haydon Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 11% White, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Manassas city's rate of about 78%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Richard C. Haydon Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 56.7%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Manassas city indicate the typical household earns roughly $113,590 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Manassas city runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,996 students), of which Richard C. Haydon Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pennington Traditional, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Richard C. Haydon Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Richard C. Haydon Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 556 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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