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What's something CRESTWOOD MIDDLE does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
557
Middle
DISTRICT 931 · STATE 750
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHESAPEAKE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510081000287
Crestwood Middle
1420 Great Bridge Blvd, Chesapeake, VA 23320 · (757) 494-7560 · Chesapeake city
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL557 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of Virginia public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
407 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 165 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 201 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 191 | 34% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
68.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
62.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -10.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 10 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 63.0% |
| 2022-23 | 69.0% | 72.0% |
% 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
61.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.2%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Crestwood Middle
Crestwood Middle's state test result (61.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crestwood Middle this school | 557 | 73.1% | 61.1% |
| Indian River Middle Chesapeake | 743 | 72.1% | 58.3% |
| Colonel Fred Cherry Middle SUFFOLK | 736 | 68.8% | 74.3% |
| Deep Creek Middle Chesapeake | 764 | 72.8% | 67.9% |
| Greenbrier Middle Chesapeake | 788 | 73.9% | 77.9% |
| O. Trent Bonner Middle Danville | 501 | 86.2% | 57.0% |
Matched among Virginia middle 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 Crestwood Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Chesapeake city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #242 of 337 | #8 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #221 of 342 ▼ 21 | #9 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #215 of 342 ▼ 36 | #8 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 557 | #238 of 343 | #10 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #36 of 327 | #2 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #72 of 333 | #4 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.1% | #165 of 340 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #206 of 224 | #6 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
557
-12 (-2%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 638
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 557 | 52.7 | 10.6:1 | 73% (407) |
| 2023-24 | 560 | 47.9 | 11.7:1 | 83% (462) |
| 2022-23 | 553 | 48 | 11.5:1 | 71% (394) |
| 2020-21 | 569 | 48 | 11.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 573 | 47 | 12.2:1 | 49% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 47 | 11.4:1 | 42% (224) |
| 2010-11 | 601 | 38 | 15.8:1 | 47% (283) |
| 2000-01 | 564 | 49 | 11.5:1 | 37% (206) |
| 1990-91 | 638 | 40 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crestwood Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (573 to 557); teachers up 12% (47 to 52.7).
About Crestwood Middle
Crestwood Middle is a small middle-grades school that serves part of Chesapeake, Virginia. The school reports 557 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 26% smaller than the 750 average for middle schools in Virginia.
Chesapeake City Public Schools has 45 schools and 40,607 students, and Crestwood Middle is one of those schools.
The most common group at Crestwood Middle is Black students, at 47%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 20% White, 10% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 29% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at Crestwood Middle is 52.7 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.6:1. That is lower than the 13.1:1 average for middle schools in Virginia. The school counts 407 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 73%. Public schools in Chesapeake city average 49%.
Crestwood Middle is graded C by allk12, scoring above 27% of Virginia public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 68.2% for a school in Virginia with Crestwood Middle's free or reduced-price lunch share. Crestwood Middle posts 61.1%.
Chesapeake city has about 252,583 residents, and the median household income is $95,373, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. In all, Chesapeake city has 50 public schools and roughly 40,607 students.
Crestwood Intermediate is the public school closest to Crestwood Middle, about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 69.3%; Crestwood Middle's is 61.1%, ranking 5th of 7.
In the federal locale system, Crestwood Middle is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 557, starting from 569. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.6:1) than in 2020-21 (11.8:1).
Discussions about Crestwood Middle may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Chesapeake city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
252,583
Census ACS
Median income
$95,373
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
40,607 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chesapeake City Public Schools
- Grassfield HighHigh · 2,345 students
- Oscar F. Smith HighHigh · 2,264 students
- Western Branch HighHigh · 2,138 students
- Deep Creek HighHigh · 1,691 students
- Indian River HighHigh · 1,634 students
- Hickory HighHigh · 1,600 students
Other schools in Chesapeake
- Grassfield HighHigh · 2,345 students
- Oscar F. Smith HighHigh · 2,264 students
- Western Branch HighHigh · 2,138 students
- Deep Creek HighHigh · 1,691 students
- Indian River HighHigh · 1,634 students
- Hickory HighHigh · 1,600 students
Other Crestwood Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Crestwood Middle. Crestwood Middle is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Crestwood MiddleFrederick, MD · 996 students
- Crestwood Middle SchoolGRAND RAPIDS, MI · 700 students
- Crestwood Middle SchoolCresco, IA · 283 students
Nearby schools
- Crestwood Intermediate0.3 mi · 736
- B.M. Williams Primary1.8 mi · 825
- Portlock Primary1.8 mi · 518
- Oscar F. Smith High2.2 mi · 2,264
- Oscar Smith Middle2.6 mi · 967
- George W. Carver Intermediate2.8 mi · 535
Frequently asked questions
About Crestwood MiddleHow large is Crestwood Middle?
Crestwood Middle enrolls approximately 557 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Crestwood Middle serve?
Crestwood Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Crestwood Middle?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at Crestwood Middle.
What is the student diversity at Crestwood Middle?
Student demographics at Crestwood Middle are roughly 20% White, 20% Hispanic, 47% Black, 3% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Crestwood Middle public or private?
Crestwood Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chesapeake City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.