Weems Elementary

Located at 8750 Weems Rd, in Manassas, Virginia, Weems Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that works with 556 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by Manassas City Public Schools.

Manassas City Public Schools comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 7,345 students; Weems Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Weems Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder breaks down as 10% White, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Manassas city as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Weems Elementary has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Weems Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Manassas city runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Weems Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.6%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Manassas city reports that the typical household earns roughly $113,590 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Manassas city runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,996 students), of which Weems Elementary is one.

Parkside Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Weems Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Weems Elementary has fell 22%, going from 715 students in 2018 to 556 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 71% to 79%.

On the community side, members of the Weems Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.