Frederick Douglass Elementary, 510 Principal Drummond Way SE: pre-K to grade 5, 559 students in fall 2025, rated Approaching Expectations.
Last checked Oct. 23, 2026. Sources: Frederick Douglass Elementary School, Loudoun County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers.
Frederick Douglass Elementary School, at 510 Principal Drummond Way SE, serves central and southeast Leesburg, pre-K and kindergarten to grade 5. Every address in its zone is inside the town limits. It is run by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the county-wide school division.
Who to call
- Front office: 571-252-1920, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- Enrolling a new student: LCPS Registration Services, 571-252-2490, and online pre-registration
- Which school serves an address: LCPS Planning and GIS Services, 571-252-1050, or the LABEL address lookup
- Buses: LCPS Transportation, 571-252-1700 (transportation page)
- LCPS central office: 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, 571-252-1000
| Address | 510 Principal Drummond Way SE, Leesburg, VA 20175 |
| Grades | Pre-K and kindergarten to grade 5 |
| Main phone | 571-252-1920 |
| Website | lcps.org/o/fde |
| School division | Loudoun County Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Melissa Logan, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 559 students in fall 2025, compared with 581 in 2024 and 564 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 532 students in the 2023-24 school year with 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 10 students per teacher.
State report card
Virginia rates each school two ways on its School Quality Profile. Accreditation shows whether the state has approved the evidence the Standards of Accreditation require. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score and one of four performance levels: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations or Needs Intensive Support, as listed in the LCPS division summary.
- Accreditation, 2025-26: Fully Accredited
- Framework score: 81.33, rated Approaching Expectations, in the division summary
Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed), from the School Quality Profile:
| Subject | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| English reading | 59% | 68% | 60% |
| Math | 59% | 70% | 61% |
| Science | 46% | 64% | 54% |
The full profile also reports attendance, teacher data and spending.
Attendance zone
The Frederick Douglass Elementary zone splits at the middle school level for 2026-27. Of its 2,118 county address points, 1,367 (65%) are zoned for Harper Park Middle and Heritage High and 751 (35%) are zoned for J. Lupton Simpson Middle and Loudoun County High. All 2,118 of those address points are inside the Leesburg town limits.
Check one address in the LCPS LABEL lookup or on the division’s 2026-27 zone maps, or call Planning and GIS Services at 571-252-1050. Our neighborhoods guide lists the zoned schools for each Leesburg community.
How we checked: we matched Loudoun County’s 140,704 address points against LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers and the town boundary. LCPS does not publish a feeder list, so the feeder lines and shares are our count; the zone lines are the division’s own.
Calendar and bell times
From the 2026-27 LCPS calendar the School Board adopted:
- Wednesday, Oct. 28: end of the first quarter
- Thursday, Oct. 29, to Tuesday, Nov. 3: no school for students (Election Day is Nov. 3)
- Monday, Nov. 9: holiday
- Wednesday, Nov. 25, to Friday, Nov. 27: Thanksgiving break
- Monday, Dec. 21, to Friday, Jan. 1: winter break; classes resume Monday, Jan. 4
- Monday, March 22, to Friday, March 26: spring break
- Friday, June 11, 2027: last day of school
Weather closings are posted on the LCPS inclement weather page.
Student drop-off starts at 7:10 a.m., according to the school’s website.
More on Leesburg schools
- The school’s own page: lcps.org/o/fde
- The state’s School Quality Profile for Frederick Douglass Elementary
- Every public school in Leesburg, with zones and state ratings
- Our Leesburg schools guide for the calendar, registration and the School Board
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Frederick Douglass Elementary School serve?
Pre-K and kindergarten through grade 5. The state counted 559 students in fall 2025.
How is Frederick Douglass Elementary School rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 81.33 and is rated Approaching Expectations.
Which middle and high school does Frederick Douglass Elementary feed into?
It splits. By share of the addresses in its zone, 65% to Harper Park Middle and Heritage High and 35% to J. Lupton Simpson Middle and Loudoun County High, on the LCPS 2026-27 zone maps.
Who is the principal of Frederick Douglass Elementary School?
Melissa Logan, according to the school’s website.
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