NCES CCD 2024-25 23 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Fairfax, VA

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23 public K-12 schools in Fairfax from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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23
Schools
23,676
Students
51.9/100
Avg Resource Index
15:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fairfax has more public-school enrollment than 94% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fairfax sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

19 of Fairfax's 23 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Fairfax's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 91st percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 21-point gap between Frost Middle and Woodson High measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 6%
School count
Top 12%
Resource Index average
91st percentile
Teacher staffing
54th percentile

Robinson Secondary accounts for 15.7% of all Fairfax public-school enrollment

That concentration means Fairfax-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fairfax school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Fairfax school enrollment ranges from 264 students (lowest) to 3,710 students (highest), a spread of 3,446 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fairfax operates one school district — a single-district system

Fairfax's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fairfax student-teacher ratio is 15.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Fairfax is typically wider than the Fairfax-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Frost Middle 62
2. Little Run Elementary 62
3. Wakefield Forest Elementary 57
4. Fairfax Villa Elementary 57
5. Johnson Middle 56
6. Olde Creek Elementary 56
7. Robinson Secondary 54
8. Lees Corner Elementary 54
9. Navy Elementary 53
10. Bonnie Brae Elementary 53
11. Fairhill Elementary 53
12. Laurel Ridge Elementary 52
13. Providence Elementary 51
14. Mantua Elementary 51
15. Greenbriar West Elementary 51
16. Mosaic Elementary 49
17. Willow Springs Elementary 49
18. Oak View Elementary 48
19. Greenbriar East Elementary 47
20. Daniels Run Elementary 47
21. Eagle View Elementary 47
22. Fairfax High 43
23. Woodson High 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fairfax

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Fairhill Elementary 74.8/100
  2. 2 Fairfax High 74.6/100
  3. 3 Johnson Middle 74.2/100
  4. 4 Fairfax Villa Elementary 74.2/100
  5. 5 Eagle View Elementary 73.6/100

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Which Fairfax school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Frost Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fairfax schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fairfax, VA? ▼

Fairfax has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 23,676 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.