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If you could change one rule at Coleman Place Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
551
Elementary
DISTRICT 435 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORFOLK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510267001089
Coleman Place Elementary
2445 Palmyra St., Norfolk, VA 23513 · (757) 852-4641 · Norfolk city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL551 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of Virginia public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.1:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
549 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 88 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 54% larger than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
52.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +3.0pp since 2022
Math
36.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 3 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 4 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 43.0% |
| 2022-23 | 49.0% | 40.0% |
% 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
40.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 61% 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 Coleman Place Elementary
Coleman Place Elementary's state test result (40.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coleman Place Elementary this school | 551 | 99.6% | 40.9% |
| Katherine Johnson Elementary Newport News | 553 | 98.6% | 53.3% |
| Cradock Elementary Portsmouth | 616 | 100.0% | 36.8% |
| Roanoke Academy For Mathematics & Science Elementary Roanoke | 464 | 99.4% | 57.1% |
| Southampton Elementary Richmond | 473 | 98.3% | 42.3% |
| Westside Elementary Roanoke | 624 | 98.9% | 42.0% |
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 Coleman Place Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Norfolk city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #1,059 of 1,101 | #26 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,093 of 1,111 ▼ 52 | #28 of 29 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #991 of 1,111 ▼ 42 | #25 of 29 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 551 | #462 of 1,176 | #8 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #373 of 1,105 | #18 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #653 of 1,106 | #20 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #142 of 1,157 | #22 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.0% | #197 of 759 | #12 of 27 |
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
551
-52 (-9%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 782
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 551 | 42 | 13.1:1 | 100% (549) |
| 2023-24 | 560 | 43 | 13.0:1 | 100% (560) |
| 2022-23 | 617 | 41 | 15.1:1 | 98% (604) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 43 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 680 | 46.2 | 14.7:1 | 99% (674) |
| 2015-16 | 732 | 48 | 15.3:1 | 100% (729) |
| 2010-11 | 781 | 48 | 16.3:1 | 78% (606) |
| 2000-01 | 782 | 54 | 14.5:1 | 77% (599) |
| 1990-91 | 782 | 45 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Coleman Place Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (680 to 551); teachers down 9% (46.2 to 42).
About Coleman Place Elementary
Among the schools in Norfolk, Virginia, is Coleman Place Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 551 students in pre-K through 5.
Coleman Place Elementary falls under Norfolk City Public Schools, which has 44 schools enrolling 26,807 students.
Of every 100 students at Coleman Place Elementary, about 62 are Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 7% White. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 40%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Coleman Place Elementary scores 56%.
Coleman Place Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Virginia is 13.8:1. At Coleman Place Elementary, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Norfolk city is similar, at 98%.
On the allk12 Grade, Coleman Place Elementary lands at F, ahead of 4% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Coleman Place Elementary would score about 61.0%. It scores 40.9%, a bottom-10% result among Virginia schools on BeatsExpectations.
For Norfolk city, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $66,109, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. The county has 54 public schools and about 26,807 students.
Coleman Place Elementary's nearest public school is Sherwood Forest Elementary (about 0.5 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Coleman Place Elementary. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Coleman Place Elementary is 8th on average proficiency.
Coleman Place Elementary falls in the City: Mid-size locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 52 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
People who know Coleman Place Elementary can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Norfolk city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
233,596
Census ACS
Median income
$66,109
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
26,807 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Norfolk City Public Schools
- Granby HighHigh · 1,980 students
- Matthew Fontaine Maury HighHigh · 1,713 students
- Norview HighHigh · 1,585 students
- Norview MiddleMiddle · 1,196 students
- Blair MiddleMiddle · 1,141 students
- Lake Taylor HighHigh · 1,107 students
Other schools in Norfolk
- Granby HighHigh · 1,980 students
- Matthew Fontaine Maury HighHigh · 1,713 students
- Norview HighHigh · 1,585 students
- Norview MiddleMiddle · 1,196 students
- Blair MiddleMiddle · 1,141 students
- Lake Taylor HighHigh · 1,107 students
Nearby schools
- Sherwood Forest Elementary0.5 mi · 406
- Ingleside Elementary1.2 mi · 574
- Richard Bowling Elementary1.3 mi · 492
- Academy for Discovery at Lakewood1.5 mi · 739
- Lindenwood Elementary1.6 mi · 243
- Jacox Elementary1.6 mi · 596
Frequently asked questions
About Coleman Place ElementaryHow large is Coleman Place Elementary?
Coleman Place Elementary enrolls approximately 551 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Coleman Place Elementary serve?
Coleman Place Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Coleman Place Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Coleman Place Elementary is approximately 13.1:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Coleman Place Elementary?
Student demographics at Coleman Place Elementary are roughly 7% White, 18% Hispanic, 62% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Coleman Place Elementary public or private?
Coleman Place Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Norfolk City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.