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Alumni: what's one memory from Richard C. Haydon Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
556
Elementary
DISTRICT 567 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANASSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510236001854
Richard C. Haydon Elementary
9075 Park Ave, Manassas, VA 20110 · (571) 377-6200 · Manassas city
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL556 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
14.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
484 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 103 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 114 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (103) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (107).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
56.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +15.0pp since 2022
Math
59.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +17.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 17 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 46.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
56.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.4%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Richard C. Haydon Elementary
Richard C. Haydon Elementary's state test result (56.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard C. Haydon Elementary this school | 556 | 87.1% | 56.7% |
| Jennie Dean Elementary Manassas | 579 | 89.1% | 49.8% |
| Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences Falls Church | 539 | 87.6% | 46.7% |
| Weems Elementary Manassas | 556 | 86.3% | 57.0% |
| Waterman Elementary Harrisonburg | 557 | 87.1% | 46.8% |
| George Carr Round Elementary Manassas | 512 | 88.9% | 61.3% |
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 Richard C. Haydon Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Manassas city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.7% | #893 of 1,101 | #4 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #907 of 1,111 ▲ 96 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #925 of 1,111 ▲ 99 | #3 of 6 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 556 | #451 of 1,176 | #5 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #628 of 1,105 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.0% | #840 of 1,106 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.1% | #402 of 1,157 | #3 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.5% | #537 of 759 | 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
556
0 (0%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 683
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
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 | 556 | 39 | 14.3:1 | 87% (484) |
| 2023-24 | 596 | 37 | 16.1:1 | 76% (453) |
| 2022-23 | 608 | 36 | 16.9:1 | 75% (456) |
| 2020-21 | 556 | 33 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 601 | 38 | 15.8:1 | 57% (344) |
| 2015-16 | 581 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 63% (367) |
| 2010-11 | 598 | 32 | 18.7:1 | 45% (267) |
| 2000-01 | 589 | 39 | 15.1:1 | 15% (88) |
| 1990-91 | 683 | 38 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Richard C. Haydon Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (601 to 556); teachers up 3% (38 to 39).
About Richard C. Haydon Elementary
Richard C. Haydon Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Manassas City Public Schools, located in Manassas, Virginia. It teaches 556 students in pre-K through 4.
Besides Richard C. Haydon Elementary, Manassas City Public Schools runs 8 other schools. The district enrolls 7,345 students.
More than half of enrollment at Richard C. Haydon Elementary is Hispanic: 73%. Enrollment also includes 11% White, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 29 points above the 44% share among Manassas city residents. The diversity index for Richard C. Haydon Elementary is 45%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 39 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.3:1. The ratio is within a point of the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 87%. That is 9 points above the 78% average for public schools in Manassas city.
On the allk12 Grade, Richard C. Haydon Elementary lands at C-, ahead of 20% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Richard C. Haydon Elementary is 7.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (56.7% versus 64.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Virginia.
Census data for Manassas city show the median household earns about $113,590 a year, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Manassas city number 12, with about 7,996 students.
Pennington Traditional sits about 0.7 miles from Richard C. Haydon Elementary. Richard C. Haydon Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Richard C. Haydon Elementary comes in 4th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Richard C. Haydon Elementary had 556 students in 2020-21 and 556 in 2024-25, nearly the same. The ratio of students to teachers went from 16.9:1 to 14.3:1 over the same years.
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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 Manassas City Public Schools
- Osbourn HighHigh · 2,301 students
- Grace E. Metz MiddleMiddle · 1,111 students
- Mayfield IntermediateMiddle · 839 students
- Baldwin ElementaryElementary · 631 students
- Jennie Dean ElementaryElementary · 579 students
- Weems ElementaryElementary · 556 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
- Pennington Traditional0.7 mi · 651
- Unity Reed High1.0 mi · 2,042
- Suella G. Ellis Elementary1.0 mi · 403
- Jennie Dean Elementary1.2 mi · 579
- Weems Elementary1.2 mi · 556
- West Gate Elementary1.3 mi · 482
Frequently asked questions
About Richard C. Haydon ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Richard C. Haydon Elementary?
Richard C. Haydon Elementary enrolls approximately 556 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Richard C. Haydon Elementary serve?
Richard C. Haydon Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Richard C. Haydon Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Richard C. Haydon Elementary is approximately 14.3:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Richard C. Haydon Elementary?
At Richard C. Haydon Elementary, the student body is approximately 11% White, 73% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Richard C. Haydon Elementary in?
Richard C. Haydon Elementary is part of Manassas City Public Schools.
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