Bayside 6th Grade Campus

Bayside 6th Grade Campus is one of the compact middle schools in Virginia Beach, Virginia, operated by Virginia Beach City Public Schools, with 329 students on its rolls from grade 6. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 750 students each, so Bayside 6th Grade Campus sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools comprises 82 schools with combined enrollment of 64,731 students; Bayside 6th Grade Campus is among them.

Demographically, Bayside 6th Grade Campus shows that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 23% White, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Bayside 6th Grade Campus has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Virginia Beach city (around 49%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bayside 6th Grade Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 69.8%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Virginia Beach city shows the typical household earns roughly $92,968 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Virginia Beach city runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), of which Bayside 6th Grade Campus is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pembroke Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bayside 6th Grade Campus at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 78.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 440 students in 2018 compared to 329 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 16% to 23%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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