Crestwood Middle

Crestwood Middle operates as a compact middle-grades school in Chesapeake, Virginia, overseen by Chesapeake City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 557 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 750 students each, so Crestwood Middle sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

Chesapeake City Public Schools runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 40,607 students. Crestwood Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Crestwood Middle reports that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 20% White, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at Crestwood Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Chesapeake city runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Crestwood Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.2%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Chesapeake city shows median household earnings sit near $95,373, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Crestwood Middle is one of 50 public schools in Chesapeake city (combined enrollment of about 40,607 students).

The closest other public school is Crestwood Intermediate, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crestwood Middle. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crestwood Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.3%.

Crestwood Middle operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crestwood Middle has fell 3%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 10% to 20%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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