Sangster Elementary

Sangster Elementary is a primary school of heavily attended scale in Springfield, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, enrolling 928 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 86% above the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Fairfax County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 179,323 students; Sangster Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sangster Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Asian, 9% multiracial, 9% Black, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Fairfax County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Sangster Elementary logs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 4% of students at Sangster Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Fairfax County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sangster Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 87.1%, the actual is 97.5%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Fairfax County runs 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), of which Sangster Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Cherry Run Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sangster Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 83.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 968 students in 2018 compared to 928 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 63% to 58%.

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