Sycolin Creek Elementary School, 21100 Evergreen Mills Road: pre-K to grade 5, 486 students in fall 2025, state rating Distinguished. Call 571-252-2910.
Last checked Oct. 23, 2026. Sources: Sycolin Creek 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.
Sycolin Creek Elementary School, at 21100 Evergreen Mills Road, serves the countryside south of Leesburg along Evergreen Mills Road and part of the Brambleton area, pre-K and kindergarten to grade 5. It is run by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the county-wide school division.
Sycolin Creek has a Leesburg mailing address but sits outside the town limits, according to Loudoun County’s town boundary map.
Who to call
- Front office: 571-252-2910
- 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 | 21100 Evergreen Mills Road, Leesburg, VA 20175 |
| Grades | Pre-K and kindergarten to grade 5 |
| Main phone | 571-252-2910 |
| Website | lcps.org/o/syc |
| School division | Loudoun County Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Lindsay Sivick, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 486 students in fall 2025, compared with 452 in 2024 and 456 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 456 students in the 2023-24 school year with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 12 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: 95.97, rated Distinguished, 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 | 83% | 83% | 87% |
| Math | 87% | 86% | 92% |
| Science | 82% | 89% | 91% |
The full profile also reports attendance, teacher data and spending.
Attendance zone
The Sycolin Creek Elementary zone splits at the middle school level for 2026-27. Of its 2,262 county address points, 1,531 (68%) are in the Brambleton Middle zone, whose students attend Watson Mountain Middle for grades 6 and 7, Brambleton Middle for grade 8 and Independence High; and 731 (32%) are zoned for J. Lupton Simpson Middle and Loudoun County High. None of those address points is inside the town limits; 1,243 (55%) carry a Leesburg mailing address, ZIP code 20175.
LCPS says middle and high school zones in the Dulles North and Dulles South areas will change when Thornton Summit High School opens next to Watson Mountain Middle in fall 2028; the details are on the division’s Watson Mountain zone page.
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.
Doors open at 7:25 a.m., the tardy bell rings at 7:45 a.m. and dismissal is at 2:30 p.m., according to the school’s website.
More on Leesburg schools
- The school’s own page: lcps.org/o/syc
- The state’s School Quality Profile for Sycolin Creek 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 Sycolin Creek Elementary School serve?
Pre-K and kindergarten through grade 5. The state counted 486 students in fall 2025.
How is Sycolin Creek Elementary School rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 95.97 and is rated Distinguished.
Which middle and high school does Sycolin Creek Elementary feed into?
It splits. By share of the addresses in its zone, 68% to Watson Mountain and Brambleton middle schools and Independence High and 32% to J. Lupton Simpson Middle and Loudoun County High, on the LCPS 2026-27 zone maps.
Who is the principal of Sycolin Creek Elementary School?
Lindsay Sivick, according to the school’s website.
What time does Sycolin Creek Elementary School start?
The tardy bell rings at 7:45 a.m. and dismissal is at 2:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:25 a.m.
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