Summary:
ZIP code 22567 contains 2 public elementary schools in Orange County Public Schools in Virginia, serving a combined 480 students in grades PK-5 through a two-school pipeline, with no middle or high schools located in the area.
Unionville Elementary serves grades PK-2 and Lightfoot Elementary serves grades 3-5, meaning the early foundations built at Unionville directly feed into the students whose test scores are measured at Lightfoot. Both schools share the same 16.5:1 student-teacher ratio and similar spending (about $8,851 per student at Unionville and $8,604 at Lightfoot). The most striking shared strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism is just 8.7% at Unionville and 4.5% at Lightfoot, compared to 18.3% for the district and 14.8% for the state. This is all the more notable given that both schools have free/reduced lunch rates around 70%, a strong indicator of economic need.
Lightfoot Elementary is the academic standout because it is the only school in the ZIP code with school-level test data. In 2025-2026, it ranked 563rd out of 1,111 Virginia elementary schools, with average SOL proficiency of 73.2% — above the district average of 67.8% and the state average of 71.6%. Math is a clear strength: 5th-grade math proficiency was 78.31% versus the state's 72.39%, and 4th-grade Virginia Studies reached 75.93% versus the state's 70.52%. However, Lightfoot saw broad declines from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026 across nearly every subject, with 5th-grade science dropping 9.6 points, and its ranking fell from the 65th to the 49th percentile. Early reading is a relative weakness — 3rd-grade reading has been below the state average two years running. Overall, this small, high-poverty elementary pipeline quietly outperforms its district context, and its exceptional attendance is likely a key reason why.
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