Summary:
The city of Dumfries, Virginia is home to 10 schools, including 7 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 1 high school, all part of the Prince William County Public Schools district. While the district is ranked 40th out of 131 in Virginia and has a 4-star rating, the schools in Dumfries show significant variation in their performance, with some standouts and others lagging behind.
The top-performing schools in Dumfries include John F. Pattie Senior Elementary, which ranks 138th out of 1,114 Virginia elementary schools and has a 4-star rating, and Covington-Harper Elementary, which ranks 247th and also has a 4-star rating. These schools boast impressive proficiency rates in Math, Reading, and Science. In contrast, Dumfries Elementary and Mary Williams Elementary lag behind, with lower proficiency rates across multiple subjects.
The data also reveals significant socioeconomic diversity across the Dumfries schools, with free/reduced lunch rates ranging from 33.69% at A. Henderson Elementary to 75.37% at Dumfries Elementary. This disparity appears to be linked to academic performance, as the highest-poverty schools tend to have the weakest test scores. The district may benefit from examining best practices at the higher-performing schools and replicating them across the lower-performing ones to address these achievement gaps.
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