Spring Hill Elementary

Spring Hill Elementary is an expansive elementary campus in McLean, Virginia, one of the schools within Fairfax County Public Schools. The school educates 980 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Spring Hill Elementary sits 96% larger than that benchmark.

Fairfax County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 179,323 students. Spring Hill Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Spring Hill Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Asian, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Spring Hill Elementary logs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 11% of students at Spring Hill 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%.

With demographic context factored in, Spring Hill Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 85.1%; this one delivers 91.3%.

In the broader 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Spring Hill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Westbriar Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring Hill Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spring Hill Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 85.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 1,011 students in 2018 compared to 980 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.