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What's something Stratford Landing Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
669
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000570
Stratford Landing Elementary
8484 Riverside Rd, Alexandria, VA 22308 · (703) 619-3600 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL669 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Virginia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
13.1:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
180 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 126 | 19% |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 47% smaller than its 6th grade class (107).
Student demographics
64%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
92.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +8.0pp since 2022
Math
87.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +10.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 8 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 10 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 86.0% | 78.0% |
| 2022-23 | 84.0% | 77.0% |
% 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
84.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
80.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% 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 Stratford Landing Elementary
Stratford Landing Elementary's state test result (84.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford Landing Elementary this school | 669 | 26.9% | 84.7% |
| Tabb Elementary Yorktown | 707 | 28.9% | 90.8% |
| Hartwood Elementary Hartwood | 627 | 30.0% | 79.4% |
| Swift Creek Elementary Midlothian | 724 | 27.5% | 84.8% |
| Sealston Elementary King George | 753 | 29.3% | 64.3% |
| Stonehouse Elementary Williamsburg | 838 | 25.3% | 82.0% |
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 Stratford Landing Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.7% | #182 of 1,101 | #43 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #191 of 1,111 ▲ 207 | #45 of 136 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #36 of 1,111 ▲ 109 | #14 of 136 ▲ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 669 | #233 of 1,176 | #57 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #376 of 1,105 | #57 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.4% | #429 of 1,106 | #81 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.9% | #963 of 1,157 | #78 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.7% | #303 of 759 | #42 of 110 |
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
669
-39 (-6%) vs 2020
+43% since 1990-91, when it was 469
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 669 | 50.9 | 13.1:1 | 27% (180) |
| 2023-24 | 723 | 51.3 | 14.1:1 | 26% (187) |
| 2022-23 | 730 | 47.3 | 15.4:1 | 24% (172) |
| 2020-21 | 708 | 51 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 784 | 45.6 | 17.2:1 | 23% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 890 | 52 | 17.1:1 | 18% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 785 | 29 | 27.1:1 | 15% (118) |
| 2000-01 | 543 | 40 | 13.6:1 | 15% (83) |
| 1990-91 | 469 | 28 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stratford Landing Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (784 to 669); teachers up 12% (45.6 to 50.9).
About Stratford Landing Elementary
Stratford Landing Elementary is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia. The school's 669 students are in pre-K through 6. Statewide, elementary schools in Virginia average about 499 students each.
Stratford Landing Elementary reports to Fairfax County Public Schools, which has 199 schools and 179,323 students.
White students make up a majority at Stratford Landing Elementary, at 54%. The remaining shares are 20% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Stratford Landing Elementary's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1 at Stratford Landing Elementary, with 50.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, elementary schools in Virginia have 13.8:1, compared with 13.1:1 here. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 27% of enrollment. Public schools in Fairfax County average 37%.
allk12 grades Stratford Landing Elementary an A-. The grade compares the school only with Virginia public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with Stratford Landing Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Virginia is predicted to score 80.8%. Stratford Landing Elementary scores 84.7%, 3.9 points above that line.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Fairfax County show that the median household income is $153,637, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stratford Landing Elementary is one of 222 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, Sandburg Middle, is about 0.4 miles from Stratford Landing Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Stratford Landing Elementary is 2nd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over 4 years, Stratford Landing Elementary's enrollment dropped 6%, to 669.
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Fairfax County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,147,837
Census ACS
Median income
$153,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
222
174,475 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfax County Public Schools
- Lake Braddock SecondaryHigh · 4,411 students
- Robinson SecondaryHigh · 3,710 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- Chantilly HighHigh · 2,937 students
- West Springfield HighHigh · 2,799 students
- Westfield HighHigh · 2,737 students
Other schools in Alexandria
- Alexandria City HighHigh · 4,655 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- West Potomac HighHigh · 2,710 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,294 students
- Thomas Jefferson High for Science and TechnologyHigh · 2,108 students
- Mount Vernon HighHigh · 1,858 students
Nearby schools
- Sandburg Middle0.4 mi · 1,401
- Fort Hunt Elementary0.6 mi · 551
- Waynewood Elementary0.7 mi · 738
- Whitman Middle1.0 mi · 828
- Mount Vernon High1.3 mi · 1,858
- Riverside Elementary1.4 mi · 741
Frequently asked questions
About Stratford Landing ElementaryHow many students attend Stratford Landing Elementary?
Stratford Landing Elementary enrolls approximately 669 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Stratford Landing Elementary serve?
Stratford Landing Elementary serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Stratford Landing Elementary have?
Stratford Landing Elementary employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Stratford Landing Elementary?
Student demographics at Stratford Landing Elementary are roughly 54% White, 12% Hispanic, 20% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Stratford Landing Elementary in?
Stratford Landing Elementary is part of Fairfax County Public Schools.
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