Coleman Place Elementary

Coleman Place Elementary, a reasonably sized K-5 school in Norfolk, Virginia, one of the schools within Norfolk City Public Schools, works with 551 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Coleman Place Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Norfolk City Public Schools, a district that teaches 26,807 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Coleman Place Elementary reports that Black students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school records 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

Looking at school resources, Coleman Place Elementary lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Coleman Place Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.0%; this one comes in at 40.9%, -20.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Norfolk city put the typical household earns roughly $66,109 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Norfolk city's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,807 students), Coleman Place Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sherwood Forest Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coleman Place Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.9%.

Coleman Place Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 680 students in 2018 compared to 551 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 76% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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