Aberdeen Elementary

Aberdeen Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in Hampton, Virginia, operated by Hampton City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 482 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within Hampton City Public Schools, which oversees 30 schools and 19,472 students, Aberdeen Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Aberdeen Elementary records that Black students make up the majority at 70%; the rest looks like 12% multiracial, 11% White, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Hampton city as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Aberdeen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.5%, the actual is 60.0%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hampton city put median household income runs about $69,621, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hampton city's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,472 students), Aberdeen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cesar Tarrant Middle, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Aberdeen Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 73.2%.

Aberdeen Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Aberdeen Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 478 students in 2018 to 482 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 81% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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