Willow Springs Elementary

Willow Springs Elementary is one of the roomy elementary-level communitys in Fairfax, Virginia, operated by Fairfax County Public Schools, with 818 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Willow Springs Elementary sits 64% above that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Willow Springs Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 33% Asian, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Fairfax County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Willow Springs Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 15% of students at Willow Springs Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Fairfax County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, Willow Springs Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.0%, the actual is 89.0%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fairfax County) logs that median household income runs about $153,637, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Fairfax County runs 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), of which Willow Springs Elementary is one.

Eagle View Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Willow Springs Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 78.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Willow Springs Elementary's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 962 (now 818). The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 43% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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