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Enrollment
584
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510384002085
Birdneck Elementary
957 S Birdneck Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 · (757) 648-2120 · Virginia Beach city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL584 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
451 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 73 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 36% larger than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
59.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -3.0pp since 2022
Math
64.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +11.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 11 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 64.0% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 63.0% |
| 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
57.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.1%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 Birdneck Elementary
Birdneck Elementary's state test result (57.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birdneck Elementary this school | 584 | 77.2% | 57.4% |
| Reams Road Elementary North Chesterfield | 612 | 77.1% | 61.3% |
| Providence Elementary North Chesterfield | 682 | 76.4% | 58.5% |
| Windsor Oaks Elementary Virginia Beach | 497 | 76.7% | 66.3% |
| Thalia Elementary Virginia Beach | 590 | 77.6% | 72.5% |
| Marguerite F. Christian Elementary Colonial Heights | 642 | 76.2% | 58.6% |
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 Birdneck Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Virginia Beach city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #881 of 1,101 | #50 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #826 of 1,111 ▼ 36 | #47 of 54 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #884 of 1,111 ▼ 296 | #50 of 54 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 584 | #393 of 1,176 | #17 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #108 of 1,105 | #7 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.2% | #74 of 1,106 | #9 of 55 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.2% | #529 of 1,157 | #16 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.6% | #535 of 759 | #26 of 40 |
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
584
-27 (-4%) vs 2020
-61% since 1990-91, when it was 1,503
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 584 | 51.2 | 11.4:1 | 77% (451) |
| 2023-24 | 627 | 57 | 11.0:1 | 74% (465) |
| 2022-23 | 646 | 52.3 | 12.4:1 | 76% (494) |
| 2020-21 | 611 | 44 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 632 | 47.1 | 13.4:1 | 68% (432) |
| 2015-16 | 735 | 41 | 17.9:1 | 70% (516) |
| 2010-11 | 819 | 63 | 13.0:1 | 65% (533) |
| 2000-01 | 915 | 82 | 11.2:1 | 76% (692) |
| 1990-91 | 1,503 | 85 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Birdneck Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (632 to 584); teachers up 9% (47.1 to 51.2).
About Birdneck Elementary
Birdneck Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 584 students.
The Virginia Beach City Public Schools system has 82 schools and 64,731 students.
The student body at Birdneck Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 31%. The next largest groups are 30% Black, 23% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The school's White share is 30 points below the 61% share among Virginia Beach city residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 74%.
The school has 51.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.4 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Virginia average 13.8:1. Of all students at Birdneck Elementary, 77% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Virginia Beach city, the average is 49%.
Birdneck Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 18% of Virginia public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Birdneck Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Virginia schools: 57.4% actual against 67.1% predicted.
The school is in Virginia Beach city, where median household income comes to about $92,968, roughly 41% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Virginia Beach city's 89 public schools enroll about 64,731 students and include Birdneck Elementary.
Birdneck Elementary's nearest public school is Seatack Elementary an Achievable Dream Academy (about 0.2 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Birdneck Elementary. By average proficiency, Birdneck Elementary is 9th among 9 schools close by.
The federal government classifies Birdneck Elementary's location as City: Large.
A 4% decline took enrollment from 611 in 2020-21 to 584 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 13.9:1 in 2020-21 to 11.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Virginia Beach city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
456,349
Census ACS
Median income
$92,968
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
64,731 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Virginia Beach City Public Schools
- Landstown HighHigh · 2,152 students
- Kempsville HighHigh · 2,046 students
- Bayside HighHigh · 1,984 students
- Tallwood HighHigh · 1,890 students
- Floyd Kellam HighHigh · 1,842 students
- Ocean Lakes HighHigh · 1,834 students
Other schools in Virginia Beach
- Landstown HighHigh · 2,152 students
- Kempsville HighHigh · 2,046 students
- Bayside HighHigh · 1,984 students
- Tallwood HighHigh · 1,890 students
- Floyd Kellam HighHigh · 1,842 students
- Ocean Lakes HighHigh · 1,834 students
Nearby schools
- Seatack Elementary an Achievable Dream Academy0.2 mi · 393
- Ocean Lakes Elementary1.7 mi · 530
- Corporate Landing Elementary1.7 mi · 415
- Corporate Landing Middle1.9 mi · 995
- W.T. Cooke Elementary2.4 mi · 555
- Ocean Lakes High2.7 mi · 1,834
Frequently asked questions
About Birdneck ElementaryHow many students attend Birdneck Elementary?
Birdneck Elementary enrolls approximately 584 students in grades PK-05.
Is Birdneck Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Birdneck Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Birdneck Elementary have?
Birdneck Elementary employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Birdneck Elementary?
Student demographics at Birdneck Elementary are roughly 31% White, 23% Hispanic, 30% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Birdneck Elementary in?
Birdneck Elementary is part of Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
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