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How has Stafford Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
879
Elementary
DISTRICT 727 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·STAFFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510366001600
Stafford Elementary
1349 Courthouse Rd, Stafford, VA 22554 · (540) 658-6340 · Stafford County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL879 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% 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
16.6:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
376 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 138 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 135 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 132 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 164 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 158 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 152 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (138) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (152).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
69.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +3.0pp since 2022
Math
74.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 74.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 65.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
66.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 Stafford Elementary
Stafford Elementary's state test result (66.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford Elementary this school | 879 | 42.8% | 66.4% |
| Douglas MacArthur Elementary Alexandria | 680 | 42.6% | 74.4% |
| Conway Elementary Fredericksburg | 904 | 47.2% | 64.4% |
| Winding Creek Elementary Stafford | 840 | 35.0% | 76.8% |
| Garrisonville Elementary Stafford | 735 | 37.6% | 72.8% |
| Park Ridge Elementary Stafford | 908 | 33.7% | 63.5% |
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 Stafford Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Stafford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.4% | #693 of 1,101 | #9 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #581 of 1,111 ▲ 166 | #7 of 17 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #638 of 1,111 ▲ 5 | #8 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 879 | #39 of 1,176 | #5 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #986 of 1,105 | #18 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.0% | #57 of 1,106 | #5 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.8% | #828 of 1,157 | #10 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.3% | #43 of 324 | #2 of 11 |
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
879
+189 (+27%) vs 2020
+53% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 17.7:1
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 | 879 | 53 | 16.6:1 | 43% (376) |
| 2023-24 | 815 | 50 | 16.3:1 | 41% (332) |
| 2022-23 | 741 | 47 | 15.8:1 | 36% (265) |
| 2020-21 | 690 | 39 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 719 | 35 | 20.5:1 | 22% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 723 | 33 | 21.9:1 | 23% (165) |
| 2010-11 | 635 | 32 | 19.8:1 | 15% (93) |
| 2000-01 | 793 | 45 | 17.6:1 | 23% (182) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 35 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stafford Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (719 to 879); teachers up 51% (35 to 53).
About Stafford Elementary
Stafford Elementary is a public elementary school run by Stafford County Public Schools in Stafford, Virginia. It reports enrollment of 879 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Virginia enroll around 499, and this school is 76% larger than that mark.
The 32 schools in Stafford County Public Schools enroll 31,812 students altogether, Stafford Elementary among them.
At Stafford Elementary, White students make up the biggest share, 31%. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 24% Black, 9% multiracial, and 6% Asian. By comparison, Stafford County residents are about 54% White. A diversity index of 75% means there is a 75% chance two randomly chosen students at Stafford Elementary are from different groups.
There are about 16.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Stafford Elementary, which has 53. The school's 16.6:1 compares with an average of 13.8:1 for elementary schools in Virginia. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 43%. That is in line with the 45% average for public schools in Stafford County.
Stafford Elementary earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 28% of Virginia public elementary schools.
In Virginia, Stafford Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 66.4% actual against a predicted 76.5%.
Census data for Stafford County show the median household earns about $137,807 a year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Stafford County number 41, with about 31,812 students.
Stafford Middle sits about 0.9 miles from Stafford Elementary. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Stafford Elementary is 5th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Stafford Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment rose by 27% across 4 years, from 690 in 2020-21 to 879 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 17.7:1 to 16.6:1.
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Stafford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
163,466
Census ACS
Median income
$137,807
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
31,812 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Stafford County Public Schools
- Mountain View HighHigh · 2,233 students
- Brooke Point HighHigh · 2,199 students
- Stafford Senior HighHigh · 2,198 students
- Colonial Forge HighHigh · 2,122 students
- North Stafford HighHigh · 1,982 students
- Rodney E. Thompson MiddleMiddle · 1,063 students
Other schools in Stafford
- Mountain View HighHigh · 2,233 students
- Brooke Point HighHigh · 2,199 students
- Colonial Forge HighHigh · 2,122 students
- North Stafford HighHigh · 1,982 students
- Rodney E. Thompson MiddleMiddle · 1,063 students
- H.H. Poole MiddleMiddle · 995 students
Other Stafford Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 4 states are named Stafford Elementary. Stafford Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- Stafford Elementary SchoolSTAFFORD, TX · 938 students
- Stafford Elementary SchoolABILENE, TX · 473 students
- Stafford Elementary SchoolStafford Springs, CT · 438 students
- Stafford Elementary SchoolITALY, TX · 314 students
- Stafford ElementaryStafford, KS · 133 students
Nearby schools
- Stafford Middle0.9 mi · 961
- Brooke Point High1.1 mi · 2,199
- Anthony Burns Elementary1.4 mi · 730
- Hampton Oaks Elementary2.6 mi · 887
- Colonial Forge High2.7 mi · 2,122
- H.H. Poole Middle2.9 mi · 995
Frequently asked questions
About Stafford ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Stafford Elementary?
Stafford Elementary enrolls approximately 879 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Stafford Elementary serve?
Stafford Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Stafford Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Stafford Elementary is approximately 16.6:1 (53 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Stafford Elementary?
Student demographics at Stafford Elementary are roughly 31% White, 29% Hispanic, 24% Black, 6% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Stafford Elementary in?
Stafford Elementary is part of Stafford County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.