Kempsville High

Set in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Kempsville High is a well-populated four-year high school, operated by Virginia Beach City Public Schools. It serves 2,046 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Kempsville High sits 69% above that benchmark.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 64,731 students. Kempsville High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Kempsville High records that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 26% Black, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Kempsville High has 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Virginia Beach city (around 49%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kempsville High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.0%, the actual is 80.1%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Virginia Beach city indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,968 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Kempsville High is one of 89 public schools in Virginia Beach city (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students).

The closest other public school is Kempsville Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kempsville High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kempsville High at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 71.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kempsville High has expanded 23%, going from 1,662 students in 2018 to 2,046 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 54% to 45%.

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