Woodley Hills Elementary

Woodley Hills Elementary operates as a moderately sized primary school in Alexandria, Virginia, run under Fairfax County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 495 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Fairfax County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 179,323 students; Woodley Hills Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Woodley Hills Elementary logs that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 15% White, 14% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fairfax County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Woodley Hills Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.3%; this one delivers 53.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Fairfax County shows median household earnings sit near $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), Woodley Hills Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mount Vernon High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodley Hills Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodley Hills Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 62.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodley Hills Elementary has edged down 24%, going from 648 students in 2018 to 495 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 58% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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