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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Centerville Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
570
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510384002010
Centerville Elementary
2201 Centerville Tnpk, Virginia Beach, VA 23464 · (757) 648-2200 · Virginia Beach city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL570 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 74% of Virginia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
16.7:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
160 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 | 17 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (113).
Student demographics
72%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
86.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
87.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +10.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 10 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 87.0% | 87.0% |
| 2022-23 | 81.0% | 77.0% |
% 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
84.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
80.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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 Centerville Elementary
Centerville Elementary's state test result (84.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerville Elementary this school | 570 | 28.1% | 84.0% |
| Rosemont Forest Elementary Virginia Beach | 497 | 30.4% | 80.8% |
| Rolling Valley Elementary Springfield | 521 | 24.0% | 74.8% |
| Bristow Run Elementary Bristow | 562 | 28.6% | 84.4% |
| Cedar Point Elementary Bristow | 510 | 23.5% | 85.9% |
| Coventry Elementary Yorktown | 630 | 34.8% | 84.4% |
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 Centerville Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Virginia Beach city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #206 of 1,101 | #13 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #212 of 1,111 ▼ 41 | #12 of 54 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #178 of 1,111 ▼ 42 | #14 of 54 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 570 | #427 of 1,176 | #19 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #999 of 1,105 | #48 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.8% | #150 of 1,106 | #21 of 55 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.1% | #956 of 1,157 | #44 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.9% | #141 of 759 | #3 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
570
-91 (-14%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 976
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 570 | 34.2 | 16.7:1 | 28% (160) |
| 2023-24 | 567 | 34.7 | 16.3:1 | 31% (178) |
| 2022-23 | 628 | 40 | 15.7:1 | 32% (200) |
| 2020-21 | 661 | 39 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 730 | 38.4 | 19.0:1 | 22% (163) |
| 2015-16 | 753 | 35 | 21.5:1 | 22% (168) |
| 2010-11 | 692 | 36 | 19.2:1 | 17% (120) |
| 2000-01 | 613 | 44 | 13.9:1 | 11% (70) |
| 1990-91 | 976 | 46 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Centerville Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (730 to 570); teachers down 11% (38.4 to 34.2).
About Centerville Elementary
Centerville Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school serves 570 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
The district for Centerville Elementary is Virginia Beach City Public Schools, with 82 schools and 64,731 students.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Centerville Elementary, at 46%. Other groups make up 15% multiracial, 14% Black, 13% Asian, and 11% Hispanic. County-wide, 61% of Virginia Beach city residents are White. The school's diversity index is 72%, meaning two students picked at random have a 72% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 16.7:1 comes from the school's 34.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. The lunch program counts 28% of students at Centerville Elementary as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Virginia Beach city, the average is 49%.
The allk12 Grade for Centerville Elementary is B+. Compared with Virginia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 74% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Centerville Elementary's average proficiency rate on state tests of 84.0% is 3.5 points above the 80.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the county around the school, Virginia Beach city, the median household income is $92,968, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Virginia Beach city is home to 89 public schools and about 64,731 public school students.
The shortest distance from Centerville Elementary to another public school is about 0.9 miles, to Tallwood Elementary. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Centerville Elementary ranks 3rd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Centerville Elementary is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 91 fewer students in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Centerville Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Other Centerville Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 13 states are named Centerville Elementary. Centerville Elementary is the 5th largest of the 17.
- Centerville ElementaryGilbert, SC · 812 students
- Centerville Elementary SchoolCenterville, GA · 679 students
- Centerville Elementary SchoolSnellville, GA · 655 students
- Centerville ElementaryCENTERVILLE, MN · 607 students
- Centerville Elementary SchoolLancaster, PA · 544 students
Nearby schools
- Tallwood Elementary0.9 mi · 601
- Tallwood High1.2 mi · 1,890
- Brandon Middle1.6 mi · 1,053
- Greenbrier Primary1.8 mi · 679
- Greenbrier Intermediate2.0 mi · 657
- Greenbrier Middle2.1 mi · 788
Frequently asked questions
About Centerville ElementaryHow large is Centerville Elementary?
Centerville Elementary enrolls approximately 570 students in grades PK-05.
Is Centerville Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Centerville Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Centerville Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Centerville Elementary is approximately 16.7:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Centerville Elementary?
Centerville Elementary reports a student body of 46% White, 11% Hispanic, 14% Black, 13% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Centerville Elementary?
Centerville Elementary is overseen by Virginia Beach City Public Schools in Virginia Beach city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.