Yorktown High
Arlington, VA · High School · Grades 9-12
Yorktown High is a high school in Arlington, VA with 2,577 students enrolled and a 75% proficiency rate. Part of Arlington County Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Yorktown High is a high school located in Arlington, Virginia. The school serves 2,577 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 75% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 85% graduation rate.
12% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Yorktown High is part of the Arlington County Public Schools in Virginia.
How This School Compares
Yorktown High has 2,577 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Arlington County Public Schools (766 students). Its 75% proficiency rate is 18 percentage points above the district average of 56%. Compared to the Virginia state average of 46%, the school performs 29 points higher.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yorktown High has 2,577 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 75% of students at Yorktown High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Yorktown High has a 85% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Yorktown High is part of the Arlington County Public Schools in Arlington, Virginia. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.