Schools · Arlington
Arlington, VA schools
57 public, charter and private schools in Arlington. Search by name or narrow by level, type.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
B+
Arlington’s School Grade: B+
The public schools Arlington’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 68% of Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
A-Test scoresC-Graduation
Virginia school districts we grade (133)Better than 68%
Lower resultsHigher results
Virginia towns with similar household incomes (116)Better than 71%
High confidence. Built on 12,278 tested students and a graduating class of 1,770; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Virginia’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Virginia only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Virginia with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (Arlington County)65%
State average 54.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
86% graduate on time
Graduation rate
86%
VA: 88.8%
Graduating class
1,770
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #227 of 249 VA towns →
Districts
The district serving Arlington
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 57 schools in Arlington
Showing 1–30 of 57 schools
Abingdon ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 768 students
C-PublicCardinal ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 682 students
APublicOakridge ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 636 students
BPublicArlington Science Focus SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 632 students
PublicAlice West Fleet ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 629 students
B+PublicArlington TraditionalElementary · Grades PK–5 · 624 students
A+PublicClaremont ImmersionElementary · Grades PK–5 · 595 students
BPublicHoffman-Boston ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 592 students
CPublicGlebe ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 574 students
APublicEscuela Key ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 572 students
C+PublicAshlawn ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 553 students
A-PublicCarlin Springs ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 534 students
D-PublicTaylor ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 530 students
A+PublicMontessori Public School of ArlingtonElementary · Grades PK–5 · 528 students
B+PublicBarrett ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 500 students
DPublicBarcroft ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 495 students
C-PublicDiscovery ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 489 students
APublicInnovation ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 483 students
A+PublicJamestown ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 456 students
A+PublicTuckahoe ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 448 students
APublicLong Branch ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 442 students
B+PublicRandolph ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 430 students
C-PublicDr. Charles R. Drew ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 417 students
C-PublicCampbell ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 403 students
B-PublicNottingham ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 382 students
A+PublicSt. Agnes SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 465 students
PrivateSt. Thomas More Cathedral SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 458 students
PrivateSt. Ann Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 267 students
PrivateOur Savior Lutheran SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 170 students
PrivateRivendell SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 147 students
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.