Ingleside Elementary

Ingleside Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Norfolk, Virginia, one of the schools within Norfolk City Public Schools, with 574 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Norfolk City Public Schools comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 26,807 students; Ingleside Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ingleside Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic, 5% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Ingleside Elementary has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 101% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ingleside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.6%; this one delivers 61.8%.

In the surrounding community, Norfolk city reports that median household income runs about $66,109, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Norfolk city's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,807 students), Ingleside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Chesterfield Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ingleside Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ingleside Elementary has grew 4%, going from 551 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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