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Vista Woods, VA schools

4 public, charter and private schools in Vista Woods. Search by name or narrow by level, type.

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Vista Woods’s School Grade: B

The public schools Vista Woods’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 60% of Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation.

B-Test scoresA-Graduation

Virginia school districts we grade (133)Better than 60%

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High confidence. Built on 14,167 tested students and a graduating class of 2,369; 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 (Stafford County)50%

State average 54.4%

Graduation · class of 2020

93% graduate on time

Graduation rate

93%

VA: 88.8%

Graduating class

2,369

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Vista Woods

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Stafford County Public SchoolsGrades PK–12 · 37 schools · 31,812 students

$13,950 per studentVA $17,169B

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Vista Woods

There’s no college in Vista Woods, but 8 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, 11.4 miles away.

University of Mary WashingtonUniversity or college · Public · Fredericksburg11.4 mi3,605 students

Eastern Virginia Career CollegeCareer school · For-profit · Fredericksburg15.6 mi206 students

Germanna Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Locust Grove17.5 mi5,065 students

Agora UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Burke24.2 mi

Ascent CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Gainesville24.7 mi6 students

College of Southern MarylandCommunity college · Public · La Plata26.2 mi3,642 students

George Mason UniversityUniversity or college · Public · George Mason26.9 mi32,320 students Northern Virginia Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Wakefield28.5 mi48,232 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Vista Woods. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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