Enrollment
362
Elementary
DISTRICT 635 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUFFOLK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510371001613
Booker T. Washington Elementary
204 Walnut Street, Suffolk, VA 23434 · (757) 934-6226 · Suffolk city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL362 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% 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.
- DBeats 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
14.5:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
255 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 66%
Community
0
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 | 74 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
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SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
53.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -5.0pp since 2022
Math
56.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -5.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 5 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 59.0% |
| 2022-23 | 58.0% | 61.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.9%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 69% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Booker T. Washington Elementary
Booker T. Washington Elementary's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Booker T. Washington Elementary this school | 362 | 70.4% | 54.3% |
| Thurgood Marshall Elementary Chesapeake | 395 | 74.9% | 55.0% |
| Rena B. Wright Primary Chesapeake | 300 | 74.7% | N/A |
| Southwestern Elementary Chesapeake | 549 | 74.1% | 72.4% |
| Montrose Elementary Richmond | 341 | 87.1% | 46.5% |
| Truitt Intermediate Chesapeake | 256 | 75.0% | 50.0% |
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 Booker T. Washington Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Suffolk city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #929 of 1,101 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #953 of 1,111 ▼ 92 | #11 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #983 of 1,111 ▼ 113 | #11 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 362 | #890 of 1,176 | #11 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #670 of 1,105 | #1 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.5% | #907 of 1,106 | #11 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.4% | #665 of 1,157 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.2% | #318 of 759 | #3 of 7 |
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
362
+30 (+9%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 494
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 362 | 25 | 14.5:1 | 70% (255) |
| 2023-24 | 342 | 23 | 14.9:1 | 68% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 355 | 30 | 11.8:1 | 65% (229) |
| 2020-21 | 332 | 29 | 11.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 422 | 32.2 | 13.1:1 | 92% (388) |
| 2015-16 | 405 | 27 | 15.0:1 | 94% (382) |
| 2010-11 | 518 | 25 | 20.7:1 | 75% (390) |
| 2000-01 | 505 | 43 | 11.7:1 | 73% (370) |
| 1990-91 | 494 | 28 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Booker T. Washington Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (422 to 362); teachers down 22% (32.2 to 25).
About Booker T. Washington Elementary
Booker T. Washington Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school found in Suffolk, Virginia. The school has 362 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Virginia average about 499 students, which makes this school 27% below average.
Suffolk City Public Schools has 14,565 students spread across 19 schools.
The share of Black students at Booker T. Washington Elementary is 77%, a majority. Smaller groups are 11% White, 7% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Suffolk city is roughly 42% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 40%.
Booker T. Washington Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.5:1. It is about the same as the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 70%. Public schools in Suffolk city average a similar 69%.
On the allk12 Grade, Booker T. Washington Elementary lands at D, ahead of 13% of Virginia public elementary schools.
After accounting for student poverty, Booker T. Washington Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 54.3% is 14.7 points below the 68.9% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
The county, Suffolk city, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $92,666 a year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Booker T. Washington Elementary, Suffolk city has 22 public schools.
John F. Kennedy Middle is the nearest public school to Booker T. Washington Elementary, about 1.3 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 54.3% average proficiency ranks 9th among 9 nearby schools.
The school is in a town close to an urbanized area, according to its NCES locale (Town: Fringe).
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 9% gain, from 332 to 362. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 11.4:1 in 2020-21 to 14.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Suffolk city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,796
Census ACS
Median income
$92,666
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
14,565 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Suffolk City Public Schools
- King's Fork HighHigh · 1,686 students
- Nansemond River HighHigh · 1,683 students
- Lakeland HighHigh · 1,045 students
- King's Fork MiddleMiddle · 986 students
- Florence Bowser ElementaryElementary · 926 students
- Northern Shores ElementaryElementary · 798 students
Other schools in Suffolk
- King's Fork HighHigh · 1,686 students
- Nansemond River HighHigh · 1,683 students
- Lakeland HighHigh · 1,045 students
- King's Fork MiddleMiddle · 986 students
- Florence Bowser ElementaryElementary · 926 students
- Northern Shores ElementaryElementary · 798 students
Other Booker T. Washington Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Booker T. Washington Elementary. Booker T. Washington Elementary is the largest of the 4.
- Booker T. Washington ElementaryEl Centro, CA · 351 students
- Booker T. Washington Elementary SchoolDover, DE · 314 students
- BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARYHOBBS, NM · 155 students
Nearby schools
- John F. Kennedy Middle1.3 mi · 498
- Mack Benn Jr. Elementary2.8 mi · 713
- Kilby Shores Elementary3.2 mi · 494
- Elephant's Fork Elementary3.2 mi · 653
- Hillpoint Elementary3.7 mi · 780
- King's Fork High4.5 mi · 1,686
Frequently asked questions
About Booker T. Washington ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Booker T. Washington Elementary?
Booker T. Washington Elementary enrolls approximately 362 students in grades PK-05.
Is Booker T. Washington Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Booker T. Washington Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Booker T. Washington Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Booker T. Washington Elementary is approximately 14.5:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Booker T. Washington Elementary?
Booker T. Washington Elementary reports a student body of 11% White, 6% Hispanic, 77% Black, 7% Two or more.
What district is Booker T. Washington Elementary in?
Booker T. Washington Elementary is part of Suffolk City Public Schools.
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