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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school

Jessie Thackrey Preschool

Falls Church, Virginia

NCES ID
510129002971
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Jessie Thackrey Preschool is a public school in Falls Church, Virginia, run by Falls Church City Public Schools. It enrols 63 students — the 90518th largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

63students

90518th nationally, tied with 89

Teachers

8.0FTE

85947th nationally, tied with 1,326

Students per teacher

7.9students

3888th nationally, tied with 136

Free or reduced-price lunch

15.9%percent

79687th nationally, tied with 85

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Falls Church City Public Schools

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Meridian High865 students
  2. 2Mary Ellen Henderson Middle581 students
  3. 3Oak Street Elementary526 students
  4. 4Mount Daniel Elementary461 students
  5. 5Jessie Thackrey Preschool63 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Virginia median across 2,163 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−89.1%
  • Teachers−79.5%
  • Students per teacher−43.6%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−76.0%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.