Signal Hill Elementary

Signal Hill Elementary is an elementary-level community of expansive scale in Manassas, Virginia, overseen by Prince William County Public Schools, instructing 807 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Signal Hill Elementary sits 62% larger than that benchmark.

Within Prince William County Public Schools, which oversees 95 schools and 90,242 students, Signal Hill Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Signal Hill Elementary lists that 34% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 34% White, 12% Black, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Prince William County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Signal Hill Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Prince William County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Signal Hill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.1%, the actual is 77.8%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Prince William County shows the typical household earns roughly $131,402 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Signal Hill Elementary is one of 102 public schools in Prince William County (combined enrollment of about 89,591 students).

Cougar Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Signal Hill Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.

Signal Hill Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Signal Hill Elementary has edged up 5%, going from 768 students in 2018 to 807 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 48% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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