Winding Creek Elementary

Winding Creek Elementary is an expansive elementary school in Stafford, Virginia, one of the schools within Stafford County Public Schools. The school instructs 840 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 68% bigger than typical.

Stafford County Public Schools comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 31,812 students; Winding Creek Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Winding Creek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 22% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Stafford County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Winding Creek Elementary shows 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Stafford County's rate of about 45%.

With demographic context factored in, Winding Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.6%, the actual is 76.8%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Stafford County) records that the typical household earns roughly $137,807 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Stafford County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,812 students), Winding Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Colonial Forge High, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Winding Creek Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 69.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Winding Creek Elementary's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 918 (now 840). Over the same period, the White share declined from 50% to 35%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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