Fairfax County Public Schools
Reston, VA · 199 schools · 179,858 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Other Districts in Virginia
95 schools · 91,101 students · 50% proficiency
96 schools · 81,678 students · 58% proficiency
82 schools · 65,456 students · 50% proficiency
65 schools · 63,916 students · 49% proficiency
Frequently Asked Questions
Fairfax County Public Schools has 199 schools serving 179,858 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 56%. The average graduation rate is 81%.
Fairfax County Public Schools operates 199 public schools, including Lake Braddock Secondary, Robinson Secondary, Hayfield Secondary, Chantilly High, West Potomac High and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Fairfax County Public Schools is approximately 81% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Fairfax County Public Schools is Lake Braddock Secondary with 4,377 students.
Fairfax County Public Schools serves 179,858 students across 199 schools in VA, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Fairfax County Public Schools's average proficiency rate of 56% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Fairfax County Public Schools to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.