Weyanoke Elementary

Set in Alexandria, Virginia, Weyanoke Elementary is a mid-sized primary school, operated by Fairfax County Public Schools. It educates 590 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Fairfax County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 179,323 students; Weyanoke Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Weyanoke Elementary records that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 23% Black, 11% Asian, 10% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Weyanoke Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.7%; this one comes in at 43.2%, -18.5 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Fairfax County put median household income runs about $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. In all, Fairfax County runs 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), of which Weyanoke Elementary is one.

Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Weyanoke Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 15%: 515 students in 2018 compared to 590 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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