Virginia Run Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Centreville, Virginia, Virginia Run Elementary serves 724 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Fairfax County Public Schools. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Virginia Run Elementary sits 45% larger than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Virginia Run Elementary logs that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 37% White, 11% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Virginia Run Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.9%, the actual is 69.2%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate the typical household earns roughly $153,637 per year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Fairfax County runs 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), of which Virginia Run Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Deer Park Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Virginia Run Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.5%.

Virginia Run Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Virginia Run Elementary has rose 9%, going from 665 students in 2018 to 724 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 42% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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