Total enrollment
12,905
-490 (-4%) vs SY 2020-21
24 schools in Portsmouth City Public Schools
Virginia · 12,905 students · 1 city
Inside Portsmouth City Public Schools (Virginia), 24 public K-12 schools enroll roughly 12,905 students (around 538 per school).
4-year change in Portsmouth City Public Schools
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25School count
22
0 (0%) vs SY 2020-21
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, enrollment-weighted demographic averages
How Portsmouth City Public Schools ranks
Among districts| Measure | This district | In Virginia | In the US |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #104 of 117 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 12,905 | #23 of 130 | #681 of 9,234 |
| Number of schools ranked most first | 22 | #20 of 130 | N/A |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #87 of 130 | #4,412 of 9,044 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.7% | #72 of 114 | #3,137 of 6,853 |
Districts need at least 2 schools and 500 students to be ranked. Test proficiency is ranked within the state only, since each state gives a different test. Each rank links to the full list.
Inside Portsmouth City Public Schools
State test results across the district's 18 scored schools run from Churchland High at 87.4% proficient to Douglass Park Elementary at 27.0%, a gap of 60.4 points. That is the 6th widest gap among 95 Virginia districts with four or more scored schools.
Since 2017-18, the 22 district schools that reported both years went from 14,339 to 12,905 students (down 10%) and from 928 to 925 full-time teachers (unchanged), as of 2024-25.
Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across each school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25; schools with fewer than 100 students and schools serving specialized populations are left out. Staffing figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data and count only schools that reported students and teachers in both years.
About Portsmouth City Public Schools
Portsmouth City Public Schools is an average-sized public-school district in Virginia. The district runs 24 schools and educates approximately 12,905 students.
For a sense of the school types, Portsmouth City Public Schools is built around 17 elementary, 3 middle, 3 high schools, and 1 combined or other.
Per-school enrollment averages around 538 in this district, meaningfully below the Virginia typical of 672.
Over the past 4-year window. Combined enrollment now sits at 12,905 students, shrank 4% from the 13,395 reported in SY 2020-21.
On this page, the community for Portsmouth City Public Schools discusses comparison threads between local schools and program reviews. Discussions cut across districts, schools, and grade levels.