Brownsville Elementary
The school Old Trail and Haden Place feed, plus a wide stretch of rural western and southern Albemarle. Home of the Bees.
By Josh Keeton, Town Realty · Updated
Grades PK–5 · Students 530 · Address 5870 Rockfish Gap Turnpike, Crozet, VA 22932 · Phone 434-823-4658
The Brownsville Elementary zone in color, with the neighborhoods in it. Click a neighborhood to see it.
Which neighborhoods are in the Brownsville Elementary zone?
Two of the neighborhoods on this site are zoned Brownsville: Old Trail, all 1,033 parcels, and Haden Place, all 39. The rest of the zone runs out past the subdivisions into rural western and southern Albemarle. The boundary follows streets rather than subdivision lines, so confirm the exact address.
Brownsville Elementary is a PK–5 Albemarle County public school in Crozet, Virginia. Of the neighborhoods profiled on this site, two are zoned to it — Old Trail and Haden Place, 1,072 parcels between them — and the rest of its 3,931-parcel zone runs out past the subdivisions into rural western and southern Albemarle.
Every Brownsville student continues to Joseph T. Henley Middle School and then to Western Albemarle High School, so the elementary zone decides the first six years and nothing after that. The part worth knowing before you buy: the Brownsville line is drawn by street address, not by subdivision, and it has moved as Crozet has grown.
Where is Brownsville Elementary?
Brownsville Elementary is at 5870 Rockfish Gap Turnpike, Crozet, VA 22932. The school's phone number is 434-823-4658.
What grades does Brownsville Elementary teach, and is it accredited?
Brownsville Elementary teaches grades PK–5 and is fully accredited for 2025-26, per the Virginia Department of Education.
Where do Brownsville Elementary students go for middle and high school?
Joseph T. Henley Middle School, then Western Albemarle High School. Every Brownsville student follows that path, and so does every student from the other three elementary schools in the western pattern — which is why the elementary zone matters for six years and not for twelve.
How many students attend Brownsville Elementary?
530 students in 2024-25 (fall membership), a student-teacher ratio of 13.49:1.
What are the bell times at Brownsville Elementary?
School hours are 7:55 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with student drop-off from 7:45 a.m., per the school's fact sheet.
That fact sheet was last updated in August 2025, so confirm the current year's times with the office (434-823-4658).
Is there before- and after-school care at Brownsville Elementary?
After-school care, yes: the county's After School Enrichment Program (ASEP) runs at every elementary school, Brownsville included, from dismissal until 5:45 p.m. on full school days. Before-school care isn't listed in the program's description.
Families choose full-time (4–5 days a week) or part-time (1–3 days). Spots depend on staffing and space, so registration is a lottery with a waitlist, and the program doesn't run on half-days. On student holidays, a separate Student Holiday Program runs 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. at Agnor Elementary, not in Crozet.
Quick answers
What neighborhoods are zoned for Brownsville Elementary?
Two of the neighborhoods profiled on this site: Old Trail, all 1,033 parcels, and Haden Place, all 39. The rest of the 3,931-parcel Brownsville zone reaches past the subdivisions into rural western and southern Albemarle. Western Ridge, Glenbrook at Foothill Crossing and Grayrock are a common misconception — all three are zoned Crozet Elementary, not Brownsville. Zoning is assigned by street address rather than by subdivision, so confirm the specific parcel.
What middle school does Brownsville Elementary feed into?
Joseph T. Henley Middle School for grades 6 through 8, then Western Albemarle High School for grades 9 through 12. The path is identical from all four elementary schools in the Western Albemarle feeder pattern.
Is Brownsville Elementary crowded?
Brownsville enrolled 530 students in 2024-25 against Crozet Elementary's 571, so it is the smaller of the two Crozet-area schools. It does sit beside the county's designated growth area, which is why Albemarle reassigned 219 students from Brownsville to an expanded Crozet Elementary in 2022 to rebalance the pair. Albemarle publishes no current capacity figure for either building.
Does living in Old Trail mean going to Brownsville Elementary?
Yes, on the county's record. Albemarle records Old Trail as two subdivisions — Old Trail and Old Trail Village Center — and all 1,033 parcels across both carry Brownsville as their elementary district, with no exceptions. Assignment still follows the street address rather than the subdivision name, so confirm a specific property with the ACPS Transportation Department on 434-973-5716.
How do I officially confirm a school zone?
Albemarle County publishes an address lookup in its GIS viewer, but ACPS calls the districts shown there unofficial and states that any official decision about which district a house belongs to must be made by the ACPS Transportation Department on 434-973-5716. That call is the version that counts — a listing description, a builder's brochure and a portal's school tab are all secondhand.
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