Sunrise Valley Elementary

Sunrise Valley Elementary is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in Reston, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, enrolling 558 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Within Fairfax County Public Schools, which oversees 199 schools and 179,323 students, Sunrise Valley Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Sunrise Valley Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder is composed of 12% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Black. By comparison, Fairfax County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Sunrise Valley Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 16% of students at Sunrise Valley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sunrise Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 83.8%, the actual is 82.8%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate median household income runs about $153,637, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Sunrise Valley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Hughes Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunrise Valley Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 70.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sunrise Valley Elementary's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 575 (now 558). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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