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What's the one class at Willow Springs Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
818
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126002147
Willow Springs Elementary
5400 Willow Springs School Rd, Fairfax, VA 22030 · (703) 679-6000 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL818 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Virginia public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
123 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 3 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 123 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 133 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 144 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 162 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 58% smaller than its 6th grade class (162).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
91.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
90.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 91.0% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 89.0% | 91.0% |
| 2022-23 | 91.0% | 89.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
89.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
84.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 84% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Willow Springs Elementary
Willow Springs Elementary's state test result (89.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Springs Elementary this school | 818 | 15.0% | 89.0% |
| Little River Elementary South Riding | 701 | 16.7% | 85.4% |
| Spring Hill Elementary McLean | 980 | 11.1% | 91.3% |
| Westbriar Elementary Vienna | 840 | 8.9% | 91.2% |
| Hillside Elementary Ashburn | 656 | 16.6% | 86.9% |
| Oakton Elementary Oakton | 795 | 13.2% | 87.0% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Willow Springs Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #74 of 1,101 | #20 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #113 of 1,111 ▼ 51 | #30 of 136 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #53 of 1,111 ▲ 25 | #23 of 136 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 818 | #76 of 1,176 | #19 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #932 of 1,105 | #131 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.7% | #343 of 1,106 | #67 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.0% | #1,075 of 1,157 | #102 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #297 of 759 | #41 of 110 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
818
-122 (-13%) vs 2020
+82% since 1990-91, when it was 450
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 16.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 818 | 50.9 | 16.1:1 | 15% (123) |
| 2023-24 | 859 | 55.4 | 15.5:1 | 14% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 904 | 53.5 | 16.9:1 | 13% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 940 | 58 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 962 | 53.5 | 18.0:1 | 9% (88) |
| 2015-16 | 939 | 54 | 17.4:1 | 8% (73) |
| 2010-11 | 696 | 26 | 26.8:1 | 5% (36) |
| 2000-01 | 978 | 56 | 17.5:1 | 3% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 450 | 24 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Willow Springs Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (962 to 818); teachers down 5% (53.5 to 50.9).
About Willow Springs Elementary
Willow Springs Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school serving families in Fairfax, Virginia. The school teaches pre-K through 6 and enrolls 818 students. That puts enrollment 64% bigger than the 499-student average for elementary schools in Virginia.
Fairfax County Public Schools enrolls 179,323 students, and its 199 schools include Willow Springs Elementary.
Of every 100 students at Willow Springs Elementary, about 46 are White, the largest group. After that, the student body is 33% Asian, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 6% Black. Census estimates put Fairfax County at about 49% White, close to the school's figure. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 67, compared with 70 nationally.
Willow Springs Elementary reports a ratio of 16.1 students per teacher, from 50.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia is 2.2 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Willow Springs Elementary, 15% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Fairfax County, the average eligibility rate is 37%.
Among Virginia public elementary schools, Willow Springs Elementary outscored 89%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Willow Springs Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 89.0%, compared with a predicted 84.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Virginia schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Fairfax County show the median household earns about $153,637 a year, roughly 65% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Willow Springs Elementary, Fairfax County has 222 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Willow Springs Elementary is closest to Eagle View Elementary, about 1.6 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Willow Springs Elementary at 2nd of 8.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
From 940 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 818 by 2024-25.
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Fairfax County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,147,837
Census ACS
Median income
$153,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
222
174,475 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfax County Public Schools
- Lake Braddock SecondaryHigh · 4,411 students
- Robinson SecondaryHigh · 3,710 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- Chantilly HighHigh · 2,937 students
- West Springfield HighHigh · 2,799 students
- Westfield HighHigh · 2,737 students
Other schools in Fairfax
- Robinson SecondaryHigh · 3,710 students
- Woodson HighHigh · 2,436 students
- Fairfax HighHigh · 2,404 students
- Frost MiddleMiddle · 1,272 students
- Johnson MiddleMiddle · 1,165 students
- Providence ElementaryElementary · 954 students
Other Willow Springs Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Willow Springs Elementary. Willow Springs Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Willow Springs ElementaryWillow Spring, NC · 826 students
- Willow Springs Elementary SchoolKILLEEN, TX · 670 students
- WILLOW SPRINGS ELEM.WILLOW SPRINGS, MO · 446 students
- Willow Springs Elementary SchoolWillow Springs, IL · 414 students
Nearby schools
- Eagle View Elementary1.6 mi · 665
- Centreville High1.7 mi · 2,347
- Powell Elementary1.8 mi · 872
- Union Mill Elementary2.2 mi · 874
- Mountain View High2.5 mi · 145
- Liberty Middle2.7 mi · 913
Frequently asked questions
About Willow Springs ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Willow Springs Elementary?
Willow Springs Elementary enrolls approximately 818 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Willow Springs Elementary serve?
Willow Springs Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Willow Springs Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Willow Springs Elementary is approximately 16.1:1 (51 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Willow Springs Elementary?
Willow Springs Elementary reports a student body of 46% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 33% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Willow Springs Elementary?
Willow Springs Elementary is overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools in Fairfax County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.