[RANKINGS] Top School Pyramids & Neighborhoods Around Lorton

Looking to purchase a new home in the least expensive neighborhood, while still staying in a top ranked Fairfax County Public School Pyramid (e.g. elementary, middle and high school)? No problem! We've got you covered! We analyzed all of the top ranked FCPS Pyramids near Lorton (as ranked by GreatSchools.org) and combined the data with the median sold prices for neighborhoods with homes that are zoned to that school pyramid.

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Top Fairfax County Public School Pyramids around Lorton

Here is the most current school rankings based on GreatSchools.org. While each person has their own criteria for determining what makes a school great, we decided to use a third-party objective criteria for this analysis. For this analysis we identified all the Fairfax County Public School Pyramids, which includes an elementary, middle and high school, along with the Great School rating and added up the score. Great School provides a score of 1-10 for each school, so each Pyramid score is out of a possible 30 points. For the FCPS Pyramids, there are 181 different pyramids and the highest score was 28, the lowest score was 7 and the median score was 18. The below tables list the cumulative Great School score for the Lorton pyramids, along with the percentile ranking for that pyramid compared against all 181 Fairfax County pyramids.

Neighborhoods and Median Home Values Around Top Lorton Pyramids

In the tables below, you'll find the neighborhoods and their median home values that have homes that are zoned to these elementary, middle and high school districts. You can see that within a school pyramid there can be a huge disparity in prices for homes. It does not mean that these neighborhoods are exclusively zoned to these schools. Note: While we make every effort to make sure this data is accurate, if you are looking at a specific house, you can go to the School Boundary Locator for the official schools for that home.

Silverbrook - South County - South County (19/30 Great School Rating)

Laurel Hill - South County - South County (18/30 Great School Rating)

Gunston - South County - South County (18/30 Great School Rating)

Newington Forest - South County - South County (17/30 Great School Rating)

Halley - South County - South County (17/30 Great School Rating)

Top 12 Pyramids

Below is a table of the best Fairfax County Public School pyramids. Eight of these pyramids are located in McLean, an area with some of the highest real estate prices in the region, however the other four are located in Fairfax, Burke and Chantilly, which are more moderately priced cities within Fairfax County.

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* Data Source: BrightMLS and GreatSchools. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.