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Alumni: what's one memory from Christopher Farms Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
626
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510384001656
Christopher Farms Elementary
2828 Pleasant Acres Dr, Virginia Beach, VA 23453 · (757) 648-2240 · Virginia Beach city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL626 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Virginia public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
15.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
230 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 | 20 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 112 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
69%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% . +2.0pp since 2022
Math
86.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +6.0pp 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 86 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 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 6 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.0% | 86.0% |
| 2023-24 | 84.0% | 83.0% |
| 2022-23 | 84.0% | 80.0% |
% 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
85.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.1%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 Christopher Farms Elementary
Christopher Farms Elementary's state test result (85.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Farms Elementary this school | 626 | 36.7% | 85.5% |
| Terraset Elementary Reston | 598 | 34.1% | 74.0% |
| Rockhill Elementary Stafford | 639 | 42.6% | 71.6% |
| Fort Belvoir Elementary Fort Belvoir | 707 | 33.4% | N/A |
| Courtland Elementary Spotsylvania | 548 | 40.7% | 71.1% |
| Magruder Elementary Williamsburg | 610 | 37.4% | 81.1% |
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 Christopher Farms Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Virginia Beach city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #159 of 1,101 | #11 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #236 of 1,111 ▲ 33 | #14 of 54 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #177 of 1,111 ▲ 31 | #13 of 54 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 626 | #311 of 1,176 | #12 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #913 of 1,105 | #45 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.3% | #254 of 1,106 | #30 of 55 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.7% | #884 of 1,157 | #40 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.6% | #394 of 759 | #16 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
626
+13 (+2%) vs 2020
-29% since 2000-01, when it was 880
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 626 | 39.3 | 15.9:1 | 37% (230) |
| 2023-24 | 616 | 39.2 | 15.7:1 | 36% (219) |
| 2022-23 | 632 | 40.8 | 15.5:1 | 33% (210) |
| 2020-21 | 613 | 38 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 708 | 39 | 18.2:1 | 25% (176) |
| 2015-16 | 645 | 29 | 22.2:1 | 28% (183) |
| 2010-11 | 728 | 33 | 22.1:1 | 16% (117) |
| 2000-01 | 880 | 52 | 16.9:1 | 13% (115) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Christopher Farms Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (708 to 626); teachers up 1% (39 to 39.3).
About Christopher Farms Elementary
Christopher Farms Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 626 students. The school is 25% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Virginia.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools enrolls 64,731 students, and its 82 schools include Christopher Farms Elementary.
The student body at Christopher Farms Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 47%. The next largest groups are 22% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 10% Black, and 6% Asian. The school's White share is 14 points below the 61% share among Virginia Beach city residents. A diversity index of 69% means there is a 69% chance two randomly chosen students at Christopher Farms Elementary are from different groups.
Based on 39.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, Christopher Farms Elementary has a ratio of 15.9:1. The gap from the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia is 2.1 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 37%. Compared with the 49% average for public schools in Virginia Beach city, the school's rate is lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Christopher Farms Elementary lands at A, ahead of 87% of Virginia public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Christopher Farms Elementary is 7.4 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Virginia schools.
Virginia Beach city is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $92,968 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Christopher Farms Elementary shares Virginia Beach city with 88 other public schools.
Floyd Kellam High is the nearest public school to Christopher Farms Elementary, about 1.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 85.5% average proficiency ranks 6th among 9 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (613) to 2024-25 (626).
People who know Christopher Farms Elementary can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
- Floyd Kellam High1.7 mi · 1,842
- North Landing Elementary2.0 mi · 463
- Landstown High2.0 mi · 2,152
- Princess Anne Elementary2.2 mi · 654
- Princess Anne Middle2.2 mi · 1,358
- Landstown Middle2.2 mi · 1,272
Frequently asked questions
About Christopher Farms ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Christopher Farms Elementary?
Christopher Farms Elementary enrolls approximately 626 students in grades PK-05.
Is Christopher Farms Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Christopher Farms Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Christopher Farms Elementary?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at Christopher Farms Elementary.
How diverse is Christopher Farms Elementary?
Christopher Farms Elementary reports a student body of 47% White, 22% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Christopher Farms Elementary?
Christopher Farms 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.