Grassfield High

Set in Chesapeake, Virginia, Grassfield High is a sprawling high school, one of the schools within Chesapeake City Public Schools. It instructs 2,345 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Grassfield High sits 93% larger than that benchmark.

Within Chesapeake City Public Schools, which oversees 45 schools and 40,607 students, Grassfield High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Grassfield High logs that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 15% Black, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Chesapeake city as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Grassfield High shows 155 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 13% of students at Grassfield High 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Grassfield High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.5%, the actual is 91.9%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Chesapeake city reports that the typical household earns roughly $95,373 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Chesapeake city's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,607 students), Grassfield High is one campus in the mix.

Grassfield Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grassfield High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 80.3%.

Grassfield High operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 13%: 2,071 students in 2018 compared to 2,345 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 63% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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