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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the KECOUGHTAN HIGH administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,553
High
DISTRICT 1,504 · STATE 1,213
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMPTON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510180000747
Kecoughtan High
522 Woodland Rd, Hampton, VA 23669 · (757) 850-5000 · Hampton city
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,553 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of Virginia public high 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
108 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
1,448 students
DISTRICT 91% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 456 | 29% |
| Grade 10 | 409 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 366 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 322 | 21% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
85.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
90.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 7 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.0% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 88.0% |
| 2022-23 | 87.0% | 83.0% |
% 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
81.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.7%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% 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 19 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 Kecoughtan High
Kecoughtan High's state test result (81.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kecoughtan High this school | 1,553 | 93.2% | 81.3% |
| E.C. Glass High Lynchburg | 1,220 | 94.8% | 67.5% |
| Mecklenburg County High Baskerville | 1,140 | 94.1% | 76.8% |
| Halifax County High South Boston | 1,282 | 99.0% | 67.4% |
| Patrick Henry High Roanoke | 2,030 | 87.4% | 55.8% |
| Dinwiddie County High Dinwiddie | 1,260 | 94.3% | 69.0% |
Matched among Virginia high 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 Kecoughtan High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #75 of 311 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #83 of 316 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #157 of 316 ▲ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,553 | #108 of 325 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #181 of 309 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #80 of 309 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.2% | #67 of 319 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #82 of 178 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,553
-60 (-4%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 1,615
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 1,553 | 107.7 | 14.4:1 | 93% (1,448) |
| 2023-24 | 1,517 | 107.3 | 14.1:1 | 91% (1,382) |
| 2022-23 | 1,564 | 113.8 | 13.8:1 | 86% (1,340) |
| 2020-21 | 1,613 | 119 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,726 | 110.5 | 15.6:1 | 40% (689) |
| 2015-16 | 1,750 | 115 | 15.2:1 | 35% (612) |
| 2010-11 | 1,855 | 97 | 19.1:1 | 33% (613) |
| 2000-01 | 1,806 | 115 | 15.7:1 | 18% (328) |
| 1990-91 | 1,615 | 101 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kecoughtan High.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (1,726 to 1,553); teachers down 3% (110.5 to 107.7).
About Kecoughtan High
Kecoughtan High is a mid-sized high school based in Hampton, Virginia. It has an enrollment of 1,553 students in grades 9 through 12. High schools in Virginia average about 1,213 students, which makes this school 28% bigger than average.
Federal data list 30 schools in Hampton City Public Schools, with 19,472 students enrolled.
The largest group at Kecoughtan High is Black students, at 42%. After that, the student body is 38% White, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Kecoughtan High scores 67%.
Kecoughtan High has 107.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.4:1. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for high schools in Virginia. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 93%. That is in line with the 90% average for public schools in Hampton city.
Kecoughtan High 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 91% of Virginia public high schools.
Kecoughtan High is in the top 10% of Virginia schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.7%. The school's actual rate is 81.3%, 18.5 points higher.
For the population of Hampton city, the median household earns about $69,621 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Hampton city, 36 public schools serve about 19,472 students.
The closest school to Kecoughtan High is Phillips Elementary, located about 0.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Kecoughtan High. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Kecoughtan High ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Kecoughtan High has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 4%, from 1,613 to 1,553.
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Hampton city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
137,557
Census ACS
Median income
$69,621
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
36
19,472 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hampton City Public Schools
- Bethel HighHigh · 1,769 students
- George P. Phenix ElementaryElementary · 1,438 students
- Phoebus HighHigh · 1,391 students
- Hampton HighHigh · 1,301 students
- Hunter B. AndrewsElementary · 1,081 students
- Benjamin Syms MiddleMiddle · 850 students
Other schools in Hampton
- Bethel HighHigh · 1,769 students
- George P. Phenix ElementaryElementary · 1,438 students
- Phoebus HighHigh · 1,391 students
- Hampton HighHigh · 1,301 students
- Hunter B. AndrewsElementary · 1,081 students
- Benjamin Syms MiddleMiddle · 850 students
Nearby schools
- Phillips Elementary0.5 mi · 435
- Benjamin Syms Middle0.6 mi · 850
- Mary T. Christian Elementary0.7 mi · 313
- Captain John Smith Elementary0.7 mi · 374
- Francis W. Jones Magnet Middle0.9 mi · 613
- Albert W. Patrick III Elementary1.1 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About Kecoughtan HighHow many students attend Kecoughtan High?
Kecoughtan High enrolls approximately 1,553 students in grades 09-12.
Is Kecoughtan High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Kecoughtan High is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Kecoughtan High?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at Kecoughtan High.
How diverse is Kecoughtan High?
Kecoughtan High reports a student body of 38% White, 8% Hispanic, 42% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Kecoughtan High?
Kecoughtan High is overseen by Hampton City Public Schools in Hampton city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.