A. Scott Crossfield Elementary School opened on Fox Mill Road in 1988 and finished a three-year renovation and addition this spring. About 500 children attend, from preschool through sixth grade, and the boundary around them holds roughly 2,500 single-family homes in Franklin Farm, Folkstone, Fox Mill Woods and two dozen smaller neighborhoods. Both of our children went to Crossfield.
Most Crossfield families now continue to Rachel Carson Middle School and Oakton High School. Starting in the 2027-28 school year, under the boundary plan the School Board approved on July 16, 2026, those families move to Franklin Middle School instead and keep Oakton High.
Crossfield serves about 500 students, from preschool through sixth grade
- Address: 2791 Fox Mill Road, Herndon, VA 20171
- Grades: preschool, and kindergarten through sixth grade
- Principal: Mark Granieri, since 2016, with assistant principal Barbara Fant
- Enrollment: 514 students in September 2026, according to the FCPS school profile
- Mascot: the Rockets
- District: Fairfax County Public Schools, Oakton pyramid
- Feeder path for most addresses: Rachel Carson Middle School, then Oakton High School, changing to Franklin Middle School in 2027-28
- School day: 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- State accreditation: Fully Accredited, according to its Virginia School Quality Profile
- Main office: 703-295-1100
- Website: Crossfield Elementary School
Crossfield students passed state reading tests at 89 percent, nine points above the FCPS rate
On the Standards of Learning tests, Virginia’s annual exams in reading, math and science, 89 percent of Crossfield students passed reading in 2025-26, 87 percent passed math and 85 percent passed science, according to the school’s Virginia School Quality Profile. Across FCPS the pass rates were 80 percent in reading, 80 percent in math and 76 percent in science. Statewide they were 74, 73 and 71.
Virginia also rates every school through the School Performance and Support Framework, the state’s accountability system, which scores each elementary school on how many students pass state tests, how much they grow from one year to the next and how ready they are for the next grade. Schools land in one of four categories: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations or Needs Intensive Support. The state released this year’s results on October 7. Across FCPS, 56 percent of schools earned Distinguished this fall, according to an FCPS release.
Accreditation is a separate measure, and the state rated Crossfield and every other FCPS school fully accredited. Under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, Virginia did not identify Crossfield for any support and improvement designation for 2025-26.
Students who qualify as economically disadvantaged passed reading at 60 percent and math at 52 percent, below the state’s annual targets of 78 and 73 percent for that group, according to the profile’s federal reporting tables.
About 8 percent of Crossfield students receive English learner services and 5 percent qualify for free or reduced-price meals
In June 2026, 40 Crossfield students received English learner services, about 8 percent of the school, and 105 received special education services, about 20 percent. About 5 percent qualified for free or reduced-price meals, a common measure of family income, according to the FCPS school profile. Crossfield does not receive Title I funding, the federal grant FCPS directs to its highest-poverty schools.
Crossfield offers Level IV services on site, with the full-time center at Navy Elementary
Advanced Academic Programs. FCPS serves students who need more challenge than the standard curriculum through Advanced Academic Programs, in four levels. Crossfield runs a local Level IV program, the most intensive level, inside the school, and in June 2026 it served 42 students at Level IV and 135 at Levels II and III. A student found eligible for full-time Level IV can instead attend the center that serves Crossfield’s attendance area, at Navy Elementary on West Ox Road.
Special education and preschool. Crossfield hosts an early childhood class-based preschool program for children with disabilities and an autism class.
Language. Crossfield does not offer Spanish immersion or the FLES world language program found at some other FCPS elementary schools.
Community. A parent-teacher organization runs the school’s fundraising and events, including a fall Fun Run.
Crossfield’s school day runs from 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Classes start at 9:15 a.m. and dismissal is at 4 p.m., according to the school’s bell schedule.
Fairfax County’s School Age Child Care program, known as SACC, runs before- and after-school care in two dedicated classrooms at Crossfield. Ask SACC about space as soon as you have a closing date. For kindergarten in 2026-27, a child must turn 5 on or before September 30, 2026.
FCPS opened Crossfield in 1988 and named it for the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound
The 1986 school bond referendum included a 36-classroom elementary school at a site planners called Money’s Corner. The name came from the crossroads of Fox Mill Road, Lawyers Road and Reston Parkway, where a family named Money once lived, and two one-room schoolhouses stood at that intersection between 1899 and about 1922. The second of them, built in 1917 on the northeast corner, was sold in 1934 and became a house, according to the school’s history page.
FCPS awarded the construction contract in March 1987 for $5.7 million. On May 16, 1988, the School Board named the school for A. Scott Crossfield, a test pilot who lived nearby and attended the meeting. Crossfield was the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound, in 1953, and the first to fly the X-15 rocket plane. Nathaniel Emery served as the first principal. Mark Granieri, the current principal, was an assistant principal at Crossfield before taking over in August 2016.
The first full renovation began in February 2023, funded by the 2019 and 2021 school bond referendums. Moseley Architects designed it and R.J. Crowley built it. The project added 11,638 square feet, including a new main entrance and office with a clear view of the bus loop, and brought the school to about 100,800 square feet on a 14-acre site. It also rebuilt the bus loop, lengthened the Kiss and Ride lane, and added new playgrounds and outdoor classrooms. The renovated building earned the Collaborative for High Performance Schools’ CHPS Designed status, a green building certification for schools, and the school held its ribbon cutting this spring, according to the FCPS capital project page.
Crossfield runs at about three quarters of capacity, with enrollment projected to fall
FCPS rates Crossfield’s program capacity, the number of students the building can hold given the programs it runs this year, at 694 seats. With 513 students in September 2025, the school ran at 74 percent of that figure, according to the adopted FY 2027-31 Capital Improvement Program. FCPS projects enrollment to drift down to 444 by 2030-31, or 64 percent. The capital project page puts the renovated building’s anticipated capacity at 750 students.
The other elementary schools in the Oakton pyramid run fuller: Mosaic at 84 percent, Waples Mill at 85 percent, Navy at 87 percent and Oakton Elementary at 94 percent. At the next levels, Carson Middle ran at 97 percent and Oakton High at 103 percent.
Almost every Crossfield home is a detached house, and most were built between 1970 and 2000
Crossfield’s attendance area covers about 3.4 square miles. Fairfax County Parkway forms much of its western edge, Lawyers Road traces much of its southeastern side, and West Ox Road and Fox Mill Road run through it. The boundary holds about 2,530 homes, according to Fairfax County property records, and all but 17 of them are detached single-family houses. The 17 exceptions are townhouses in Oak Farms. The median home in the boundary was built in 1984, more than eight in ten are two-story houses, and the median detached house has about 2,750 square feet of finished living space.
Most addresses carry a Herndon 20171 mailing address, but none lie inside the Town of Herndon. About 240 homes in Fox Mill Woods have Reston 20191 addresses, and about 40 homes at the southern edge use a Fairfax 22033 address. The largest neighborhoods in the boundary are:
- Franklin Farm, about 600 homes on the Crossfield side, built in the 1980s
- Folkstone, about 250 homes, most built in the 1970s
- Fox Mill Woods, about 240 homes with Reston addresses, most built in the 1970s
- Oak Farms, about 125 homes built from 1997 to 2002, including the boundary’s 17 townhouses
- Franklin Oaks, about 120 homes built from 1986 to 1988
- Glenbrooke Woods, about 125 homes across two sections
- West Ox Cluster, Ashburton Manors and Still Oaks, each with about 80 to 90 homes
Smaller enclaves fill in the rest, including Money’s Corner, Oak Hill Reserve, Chantilly Highlands, Crossfields and a handful of houses built since 2020 in Pond Mist Reserve and Prince Towne.
From January through September 2026, 61 homes in the Crossfield boundary sold through Bright MLS, the regional listing service, at a median price of about $1.13 million. Eight in ten of those sales landed between $825,000 and $1.7 million. The median home went under contract in five days, at its original list price. If you want the sales on the streets you are considering, reach out to us and we will pull them for you.
Most Crossfield families will move from Carson Middle to Franklin Middle in 2027-28
Crossfield feeds three middle schools today, according to Fairfax County’s school attendance maps for 2026-27:
- About 2,260 homes, roughly nine in ten, attend Rachel Carson Middle School and then Oakton High School.
- Fox Mill Woods, about 240 homes, attends Langston Hughes Middle School and then South Lakes High School.
- About 30 homes in Franklin Manor, with Fairfax addresses, attend Franklin Middle School and then Chantilly High School.
The Skyview High School boundary study, which the School Board approved on July 16, 2026, redrew the Carson and Franklin middle school lines starting in the 2027-28 school year. FCPS estimated that about 177 middle schoolers would move from Carson to Franklin. The approved maps on the FCPS boundary explorer place the Carson side of Crossfield in that group, from Franklin Farm and Folkstone to Oak Farms and Money’s Corner, and keep those addresses inside the Oakton High boundary.
Fox Mill Woods keeps Hughes Middle and South Lakes High, and Franklin Manor keeps Franklin Middle and Chantilly High. Elementary boundaries did not change in the study, so every one of these addresses stays at Crossfield. Once the change takes effect, about nine in ten Crossfield homes will feed Franklin Middle, and FCPS projects the change will bring Carson from 97 percent of capacity to 91 percent and leave Franklin at 89 percent. Our Skyview High School guide covers the high school side of the study.
If you have a child at Carson now, ask FCPS how the change applies to students already enrolled there. The county’s boundary policy generally lets current middle schoolers choose to stay at their school when a boundary moves, but it exempts changes made for a new school’s opening, and the Skyview phasing plan the board approved addresses only high school students.
Check the boundary locator before you write an offer
FCPS assigns students by street address, and attendance lines do not follow ZIP codes or mailing cities. A Reston address in Fox Mill Woods and a Herndon address on the next street can lead to different middle and high schools. Before you make an offer on a home you want partly for Crossfield:
- Enter the exact address in the FCPS Boundary Locator. It returns the assigned elementary, middle and high school for the current year.
- For any year from 2027-28 on, check the same address in the FCPS boundary explorer, which shows the approved Skyview-study assignments.
- Treat the school fields on a listing as a starting point. Listing agents fill them in, and they can lag a boundary change like the move from Carson to Franklin.
- Call the main office at 703-295-1100 with specific questions about class sizes by grade, SACC availability and whether your street falls in a walk zone or a bus zone.
Crossfield combines a renovated building and high pass rates with a new middle school path in 2027
Crossfield is a 1988 school that finished its first full renovation this spring, with state test pass rates well above the FCPS average, a local Level IV program and room to grow. Its boundary is almost entirely detached houses, from Franklin Farm and Folkstone to Fox Mill Woods, and starting in 2027-28 most of those addresses lead to Franklin Middle and Oakton High.
If you are weighing homes around Fox Mill Road and West Ox Road and want to know which addresses land at Crossfield, reach out to us. We can pull the boundary and the feeder path for any listing you are considering before you make an offer.
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