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If you could change one rule at Aberdeen Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
482
Elementary
DISTRICT 479 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMPTON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510180000726
Aberdeen Elementary
1424 Aberdeen Rd, Hampton, VA 23666 · (757) 825-4624 · Hampton city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL482 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
435 students
DISTRICT 91% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
62.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
69.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +16.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 16 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 69.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 57.0% |
| 2022-23 | 62.0% | 53.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Aberdeen Elementary
Aberdeen Elementary's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen Elementary this school | 482 | 90.2% | 60.0% |
| A.W.E. Bassette Elementary Hampton | 486 | 92.2% | 65.6% |
| Henry D. Ward Elementary Richmond | 526 | 89.4% | 60.0% |
| Luther W. Machen Elementary Hampton | 430 | 95.1% | 65.5% |
| Mary S. Peake Elementary Hampton | 404 | 92.3% | 67.4% |
| Paul Burbank Elementary Hampton | 432 | 90.7% | 65.5% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Aberdeen Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Hampton city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #837 of 1,101 | #19 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #701 of 1,111 ▲ 185 | #14 of 20 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #810 of 1,111 ▲ 51 | #16 of 20 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 482 | #627 of 1,176 | #5 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #698 of 1,105 | #13 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.7% | #783 of 1,106 | #17 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.2% | #324 of 1,157 | #16 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.8% | #307 of 324 | #8 of 9 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
482
+39 (+9%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 405
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 482 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 90% (435) |
| 2023-24 | 452 | 30 | 15.1:1 | 91% (413) |
| 2022-23 | 442 | 31 | 14.3:1 | 86% (378) |
| 2020-21 | 443 | 28 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 478 | 30 | 15.9:1 | 89% (425) |
| 2015-16 | 456 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 90% (410) |
| 2010-11 | 471 | 25 | 18.8:1 | 76% (360) |
| 2000-01 | 472 | 28 | 16.9:1 | 74% (347) |
| 1990-91 | 405 | 24 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Aberdeen Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (478 to 482); teachers up 10% (30 to 33).
About Aberdeen Elementary
As a medium-sized elementary school, Aberdeen Elementary serves students in Hampton, Virginia. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 482 students.
Aberdeen Elementary reports to Hampton City Public Schools, which has 30 schools and 19,472 students.
At 70%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Aberdeen Elementary combined. It is also 12% multiracial, 11% White, and 6% Hispanic. Hampton city's residents are about 49% Black, 20 points below the school's share. By the diversity index, Aberdeen Elementary comes in at 49%.
Teacher staffing is 33 full-time equivalents, or about 14.6 students per teacher. The 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia is lower than this school's figure. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 90%. Across public schools in Hampton city, the average is about the same, 90%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Aberdeen Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Virginia schools: 60.0% actual against 63.5% predicted.
Hampton city has about 137,557 residents, and median household income is about $69,621, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Federal data list 36 public schools in Hampton city, with a combined enrollment of about 19,472.
Cesar Tarrant Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Aberdeen Elementary ranks 9th on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies Aberdeen Elementary's location as Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 443 to 482. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.6:1) than in 2020-21 (15.8:1).
The Aberdeen Elementary community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Hampton city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
137,557
Census ACS
Median income
$69,621
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
36
19,472 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hampton City Public Schools
- Bethel HighHigh · 1,769 students
- Kecoughtan HighHigh · 1,553 students
- George P. Phenix ElementaryElementary · 1,438 students
- Phoebus HighHigh · 1,391 students
- Hampton HighHigh · 1,301 students
- Hunter B. AndrewsElementary · 1,081 students
Other schools in Hampton
- Bethel HighHigh · 1,769 students
- Kecoughtan HighHigh · 1,553 students
- George P. Phenix ElementaryElementary · 1,438 students
- Phoebus HighHigh · 1,391 students
- Hampton HighHigh · 1,301 students
- Hunter B. AndrewsElementary · 1,081 students
Other Aberdeen Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Aberdeen Elementary. Aberdeen Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Aberdeen ElementaryAberdeen, NC · 675 students
- Aberdeen ElementaryAberdeen, MS · 346 students
- ABERDEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLABERDEEN, ID · 274 students
Nearby schools
- Cesar Tarrant Middle1.0 mi · 737
- C. Alton Lindsay Middle1.1 mi · 612
- Alfred S. Forrest Elementary1.2 mi · 499
- Christopher C. Kraft Elementary1.2 mi · 452
- Hampton High1.4 mi · 1,301
- Thomas Eaton Middle1.6 mi · 581
Frequently asked questions
About Aberdeen ElementaryHow many students attend Aberdeen Elementary?
Aberdeen Elementary enrolls approximately 482 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Aberdeen Elementary serve?
Aberdeen Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Aberdeen Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Aberdeen Elementary is approximately 14.6:1 (33 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Aberdeen Elementary?
Aberdeen Elementary reports a student body of 11% White, 6% Hispanic, 70% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Aberdeen Elementary?
Aberdeen Elementary is overseen by Hampton City Public Schools in Hampton city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.