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Best kept secret at Woodley Hills Elementary?
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Enrollment
495
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510126000599
Woodley Hills Elementary
8718 Old Mt Vernon Rd, Alexandria, VA 22309 · (703) 799-2000 · Fairfax County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL495 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of Virginia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
11.0:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
414 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 | 22 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 19% larger than its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
56%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
59.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +14.0pp since 2022
Math
51.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +14.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 14 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 43.0% |
| 2022-23 | 45.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
53.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Woodley Hills Elementary
Woodley Hills Elementary's state test result (53.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodley Hills Elementary this school | 495 | 83.6% | 53.0% |
| George Carr Round Elementary Manassas | 512 | 88.9% | 61.3% |
| Waterman Elementary Harrisonburg | 557 | 87.1% | 46.8% |
| Virginia Avenue Charlotte Dehart Elementary Winchester | 415 | 83.6% | 50.5% |
| Spotswood Elementary Harrisonburg | 468 | 83.8% | 40.9% |
| Baldwin Elementary Manassas | 631 | 86.7% | 56.3% |
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 Woodley Hills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Fairfax County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #946 of 1,101 | #112 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,012 of 1,111 ▲ 26 | #128 of 136 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #866 of 1,111 ▲ 166 | #109 of 136 ▲ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 495 | #595 of 1,176 | #117 of 144 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #76 of 1,105 | #10 of 143 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #654 of 1,106 | #117 of 143 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.6% | #448 of 1,157 | #14 of 140 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.6% | #113 of 759 | #16 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
495
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 642
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 10.0:1
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 | 495 | 44.9 | 11.0:1 | 84% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 520 | 41.1 | 12.7:1 | 76% (394) |
| 2022-23 | 486 | 40.8 | 11.9:1 | 74% (361) |
| 2020-21 | 492 | 49 | 10.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 648 | 48.5 | 13.4:1 | 67% (437) |
| 2015-16 | 778 | 52 | 15.0:1 | 65% (509) |
| 2010-11 | 706 | 52 | 13.6:1 | 64% (455) |
| 2000-01 | 525 | 48 | 10.9:1 | 44% (229) |
| 1990-91 | 642 | 38 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodley Hills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (648 to 495); teachers down 7% (48.5 to 44.9).
About Woodley Hills Elementary
Woodley Hills Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, administered by Fairfax County Public Schools. It reported 495 students in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25.
Woodley Hills Elementary is in Fairfax County Public Schools, a district with 179,323 students across 199 schools.
More than half of the students at Woodley Hills Elementary are Hispanic (62%). The remaining shares are 15% White, 14% Black, 4% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Fairfax County's population at about 18%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Woodley Hills Elementary scores 56%.
Based on 44.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, Woodley Hills Elementary has a ratio of 11.0:1. The gap from the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia is 2.8 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 84%. Among public schools in Fairfax County, the average eligibility rate is 37%.
On the allk12 Grade, Woodley Hills Elementary lands at D, ahead of 14% of Virginia public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Woodley Hills Elementary is 12.3 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Virginia schools.
In Fairfax County, home to about 1,147,837 people, the median household earns about $153,637 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 65% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Woodley Hills Elementary shares Fairfax County with 221 other public schools.
Woodley Hills Elementary is about 0.5 miles from Mount Vernon High, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Woodley Hills Elementary ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 53.0% against a local average of 62.9%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's size has been steady, with 492 students in 2020-21 and 495 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for Woodley Hills Elementary is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Alexandria
- Alexandria City HighHigh · 4,655 students
- Hayfield SecondaryHigh · 3,256 students
- West Potomac HighHigh · 2,710 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,294 students
- Thomas Jefferson High for Science and TechnologyHigh · 2,108 students
- Mount Vernon HighHigh · 1,858 students
Nearby schools
- Mount Vernon High0.5 mi · 1,858
- Riverside Elementary0.7 mi · 741
- Washington Mill Elementary0.8 mi · 592
- Woodlawn Elementary1.2 mi · 447
- Mount Vernon Woods Elementary1.6 mi · 507
- Stratford Landing Elementary1.6 mi · 669
Frequently asked questions
About Woodley Hills ElementaryHow many students attend Woodley Hills Elementary?
Woodley Hills Elementary enrolls approximately 495 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Woodley Hills Elementary serve?
Woodley Hills Elementary serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Woodley Hills Elementary?
Approximately 11.0:1 students per teacher at Woodley Hills Elementary.
How diverse is Woodley Hills Elementary?
Woodley Hills Elementary reports a student body of 15% White, 62% Hispanic, 14% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Woodley Hills Elementary?
Woodley Hills 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.