Woodlawn Elementary

Woodlawn Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Alexandria, Virginia, operated by Fairfax County Public Schools. The school educates 447 students in grades pre-K through 6.

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

Demographically, Woodlawn Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder comes out to 19% Black, 10% White, 9% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Woodlawn Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 65.4%; actual is 49.8%, a gap of -15.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fairfax County indicate 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. Across Fairfax County's 222 public schools (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students), Woodlawn Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Woodley Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodlawn Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 63.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 447 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 26% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

On this page, members of the Woodlawn Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.