Frederick Douglass Elementary, 100 Cedarmeade Ave.: pre-K to grade 4, 363 students in fall 2025, fully accredited, framework score 88.34. Office: 540-662-7656.

Last checked Oct. 20, 2026. Sources: Frederick Douglass Elementary, Winchester Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and the city’s school district map layer.

Frederick Douglass Elementary School serves pre-K through fourth grade at 100 Cedarmeade Ave. for Winchester Public Schools (WPS), one of the division’s four elementary schools. It had 363 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows. Its mascot is the Pandas. The school opened in fall 1990 and is named for the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, according to its about page.

Who to call
Address 100 Cedarmeade Ave., Winchester, VA 22601
Phone 540-662-7656
Grades Pre-K to 4
School day 7:50 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Website fdes.wps.k12.va.us
Division Winchester Public Schools

Principal

Principal Melissa Maestle, according to the school’s website. The page says she joined the school as lead teacher in July 2014 after seven years of teaching in Culpeper County.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 363 students in fall 2025, compared with 376 in fall 2024 and 286 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile. Fall 2025 broke down as 48 in pre-K, 53 in kindergarten, 74 in first grade, 67 in second grade, 66 in third grade and 55 in fourth grade.
  • Federal count: 286 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 12 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia rates schools two ways. Accreditation means a school “submitted all required evidence to the Department of Education as prescribed in the Standards of Accreditation,” in the words of the state profile. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score and one of four performance levels: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations and Needs Intensive Support.

  • Accreditation: Fully Accredited, the state’s designation for the 2025-26 school year.
  • Framework score: 88.34, performance level Meets Expectations, in the state’s division summary.

Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed, all tests in the subject; state tests start in third grade):

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
English reading 61% 74% 77%
Math 71% 74% 73%
History and social science 65% 82% 80%

The full profile also reports attendance, student groups, teacher data and spending.

Programs

Dual language immersion: parents can choose a program in which students spend half of each day learning in Spanish and half in English, from pre-K through fourth grade, the principal’s page says. It lists 10 international teachers who teach in Spanish. The school’s theme is “Growing Global Leaders in Language and Literacy.”

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Winchester has four elementary zones, and they do not follow neighborhood lines. Enter an address in WebQuery and choose the grade (K for preschool) to see the school and bus stop, or call the school. Families near the school can check the division’s walk zone maps.

By our count of the city’s address points on its School Districts map layer, the Frederick Douglass Elementary zone takes in the Southeast planning area (74% of its address points), the Southwest area (43%) and the South Central area (29%). See our neighborhood guides for Southeast, Southwest and South Central. The other elementary schools are Garland R. Quarles Elementary, John Kerr Elementary and Virginia Avenue Charlotte DeHart Elementary.

Feeder schools: every WPS student goes on to Daniel Morgan Intermediate for fifth and sixth grade, Daniel Morgan Middle for seventh and eighth, and John Handley High, according to the division’s list of schools. Zones stop at the city line: homes with a Winchester mailing address in ZIP codes 22602 and 22603 are in Frederick County, which runs its own schools.

Calendar and bell times

From the division’s 2026-27 calendar:

  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: teacher professional development day
  • Nov. 25-27: fall break
  • Friday, Dec. 18: end of the second quarter, holiday early release
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; Monday, Jan. 4, is a teacher professional development day
  • Monday, Jan. 18: division holiday
  • March 26 and March 29 to April 2: spring break
  • Friday, May 28: last day of school, early release

The calendar sets elementary hours at 7:50 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The school’s own page lists parent drop-off from 7:25 a.m., the tardy bell at 7:50 a.m. and pickup at 2:30 p.m. Closings and delays are posted on the division’s closings page.

More on Winchester schools

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Frederick Douglass Elementary serve?

Pre-K through fourth grade. It had 363 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows. Fifth graders move on to Daniel Morgan Intermediate.

How is Frederick Douglass Elementary rated by the state?

It is fully accredited for 2025-26. On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 88.34 and is rated Meets Expectations, according to the state’s School Quality Profiles.

Which high school does Frederick Douglass Elementary feed into?

John Handley High School, by way of Daniel Morgan Intermediate for fifth and sixth grade and Daniel Morgan Middle for seventh and eighth grade. Every Winchester Public Schools student attends those three schools.

What time does Frederick Douglass Elementary start?

Elementary school runs from 7:50 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., according to the division’s 2026-27 calendar. The school lists drop-off from 7:25 a.m.