Hodges Manor Elementary

Hodges Manor Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Portsmouth, Virginia, run under Portsmouth City Public Schools, with 466 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Within Portsmouth City Public Schools, which oversees 22 schools and 12,905 students, Hodges Manor Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Hodges Manor Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 15% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Hodges Manor Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 101% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hodges Manor Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.5%; this one delivers 48.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Portsmouth city) logs that the typical household earns roughly $60,491 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Hodges Manor Elementary is one of 24 public schools in Portsmouth city (combined enrollment of about 12,905 students).

Nearest neighbor: Manor High, around 0.2 miles off. 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), Hodges Manor Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 20% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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