Stratford Landing Elementary

Stratford Landing Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools. The school educates 669 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 34% bigger than 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; Stratford Landing Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Stratford Landing Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Stratford Landing Elementary has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Stratford Landing Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Fairfax County's rate of about 37%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stratford Landing Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 80.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 84.7%.

In the surrounding community, Fairfax County reports that median household earnings sit near $153,637, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Stratford Landing Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sandburg Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stratford Landing Elementary. On composite proficiency, Stratford Landing Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Stratford Landing Elementary's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 784 (now 669). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.