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Alumni: what's one memory from Ghent K-8 that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
501
Elementary
DISTRICT 435 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORFOLK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510267001096
Ghent K-8
200 Shirley Ave, Norfolk, VA 23517 · (757) 628-2565 · Norfolk city
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL501 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of Virginia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
13.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
498 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 42 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 40% larger than its 8th grade class (42).
Student demographics
63%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
80.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
Math
74.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 74.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 77.0% |
| 2022-23 | 79.0% | 77.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
84.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Virginia's top 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 Ghent K-8
Ghent K-8's state test result (84.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghent K-8 this school | 501 | 99.4% | 84.1% |
| Richard T. Yates Elementary Newport News | 448 | 97.8% | 64.5% |
| Simonsdale Elementary Portsmouth | 613 | 99.5% | 57.3% |
| Riverdale Elementary Courtland | 533 | 91.2% | 79.0% |
| Sutherland Elementary Sutherland | 548 | 94.2% | 55.9% |
| Northumberland Elementary Heathsville | 503 | 99.2% | 70.6% |
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 Ghent K-8 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Norfolk city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.1% | #201 of 1,101 | #1 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #568 of 1,111 ▼ 130 | #7 of 29 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #328 of 1,111 ▼ 154 | #2 of 29 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 501 | #578 of 1,176 | #11 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #538 of 1,105 | #24 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.6% | #492 of 1,106 | #14 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #164 of 1,157 | #27 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.3% | #690 of 759 | #26 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
501
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 550
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 501 | 36 | 13.9:1 | 99% (498) |
| 2023-24 | 501 | 40 | 12.5:1 | 99% (497) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 36 | 13.4:1 | 97% (466) |
| 2020-21 | 500 | 36 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 513 | 37.4 | 13.7:1 | 30% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 523 | 39 | 13.4:1 | 29% (150) |
| 2010-11 | 580 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 29% (168) |
| 2000-01 | 529 | 37 | 14.3:1 | 35% (187) |
| 1990-91 | 550 | 31 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ghent K-8.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (513 to 501); teachers down 4% (37.4 to 36).
About Ghent K-8
Ghent K-8, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in Norfolk, Virginia. It reported 501 students in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25.
Norfolk City Public Schools runs 44 schools with a combined 26,807 students. Ghent K-8 is one of them.
Black students account for 43% of enrollment at Ghent K-8, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 43% White, 8% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. Norfolk city residents are about 40% Black, a similar share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 63%.
Ghent K-8 reports a ratio of 13.9 students per teacher, from 36 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Lunch program data show 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is in line with the 98% average for public schools in Norfolk city.
Ghent K-8 earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 93% of Virginia public elementary schools.
After accounting for student poverty, Ghent K-8 is in the top 10% of Virginia schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 84.1% is 23.1 points above the 61.0% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Norfolk city is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $66,109, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. There are 54 public schools in the county, enrolling about 26,807, Ghent K-8 among them.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Matthew Fontaine Maury High, is the closest to Ghent K-8. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 84.1% average proficiency ranks 1st among 8 nearby schools.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 501, close to the 500 recorded in 2020-21.
The discussion board for Ghent K-8 is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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
- Matthew Fontaine Maury High0.2 mi · 1,713
- Blair Middle0.5 mi · 1,141
- P.B. Young Sr. Elementary0.7 mi · 241
- James Monroe Elementary0.8 mi · 299
- Walter Herron Taylor Elementary1.0 mi · 403
- Lindenwood Elementary1.0 mi · 243
Frequently asked questions
About Ghent K-8How large is Ghent K-8?
Ghent K-8 enrolls approximately 501 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Ghent K-8 serve?
Ghent K-8 serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Ghent K-8?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Ghent K-8.
How diverse is Ghent K-8?
Ghent K-8 reports a student body of 43% White, 6% Hispanic, 43% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Ghent K-8?
Ghent K-8 is overseen by Norfolk City Public Schools in Norfolk city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.