West Springfield High

West Springfield High is one of the high-enrollment secondary schools in Springfield, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools, with 2,799 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 131% above the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 1,213 students.

Across the 199 schools in Fairfax County Public Schools (179,323 students total), West Springfield High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, West Springfield High logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 12% Black, 9% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 204 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Springfield High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 83.7%; this one delivers 81.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Fairfax County shows median household earnings sit near $153,637, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. West Springfield High is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

Cardinal Forest Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Springfield High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 80.8%.

West Springfield High operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 26%: 2,219 students in 2018 compared to 2,799 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

On the community side, members of the West Springfield High community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.