Summary:
Zip code 20136 in Bristow, VA is served by six schools in Prince William County Public Schools — five elementary schools serving grades PK–5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8 — totaling about 4,365 students, with no high schools located within the zip code itself.
This is an academically strong area. E.H. Marsteller Middle leads as the top-rated school, ranking in the 89th percentile statewide with 100% proficiency in 7th-grade Algebra I, 100% in 8th-grade Geometry, and 98.38% in 8th-grade Algebra I. Among elementary schools, Piney Branch Elementary and Cedar Point Elementary rank in the top 12% of Virginia elementary schools (89th and 88th percentiles, respectively), with Cedar Point offering the area's lowest student-teacher ratio at 14.9. Bristow Run Elementary (82nd percentile) and Victory Elementary (73rd percentile) also perform solidly. The outlier is Chris Yung Elementary, which ranks in the 43rd percentile and trails district averages in math, reading, and science.
Poverty alone doesn't explain performance: Victory Elementary and Chris Yung Elementary both have free/reduced lunch rates near 70%, yet Victory outranks Chris Yung by more than 300 places. Chronic absenteeism is uniformly low across all six schools (5.1%–10.8%), well below the district and state averages of about 14%. Per-student spending ranges from $10,189 at Piney Branch to $12,272 at Cedar Point, but both are top performers, showing that higher spending doesn't guarantee better results. While there's no high school within 20136, the strong feeder pattern — especially the exceptional math acceleration at E.H. Marsteller Middle — gives families a solid foundation through middle school.
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