Samuel W. Tucker Elementary

Set in Alexandria, Virginia, Samuel W. Tucker Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school, operated by Alexandria City Public Schools. It hosts 735 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% bigger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Alexandria City Public Schools comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 16,575 students; Samuel W. Tucker Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Samuel W. Tucker Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 25% White, 23% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 9% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Samuel W. Tucker Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 63.8%, a residual of -3.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Alexandria city shows the typical household earns roughly $119,681 per year, about 66% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alexandria city's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,575 students), Samuel W. Tucker Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bush Hill Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Samuel W. Tucker Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Samuel W. Tucker Elementary's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 815 (now 735). The Black share of enrollment declined from 36% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Samuel W. Tucker Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.