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What's something King's Grant Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
475
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510384001697
King's Grant Elementary
612 N Lynnhaven Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23452 · (757) 648-2800 · Virginia Beach city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL475 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of Virginia public elementary schools
- BTest 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
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
395 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 5 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
81.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +9.0pp since 2022
Math
79.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +9.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 9 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 9 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 76.0% |
| 2022-23 | 72.0% | 70.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
73.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 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 King's Grant Elementary
King's Grant Elementary's state test result (73.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| King's Grant Elementary this school | 475 | 83.2% | 73.9% |
| Stony Mill Elementary Danville | 440 | 83.6% | 79.9% |
| Lee M. Waid Elementary Rocky Mount | 386 | 85.5% | 83.5% |
| G.W. Carver Elementary Salem | 404 | 88.4% | 81.4% |
| Bessie Weller Elementary Staunton | 373 | 83.1% | 75.7% |
| Madison Heights Elementary Madison Heights | 449 | 84.0% | 54.8% |
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 King's Grant Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Virginia Beach city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #472 of 1,101 | #28 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #442 of 1,111 ▲ 25 | #29 of 54 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #316 of 1,111 ▲ 41 | #25 of 54 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 475 | #647 of 1,176 | #40 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #529 of 1,105 | #31 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #483 of 1,106 | #38 of 55 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.2% | #459 of 1,157 | #12 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #228 of 759 | #8 of 40 |
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
475
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 872
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 475 | 34.2 | 13.9:1 | 83% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 37.7 | 12.8:1 | 80% (385) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 37.8 | 13.3:1 | 67% (336) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | 36 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 577 | 33.1 | 17.4:1 | 44% (252) |
| 2015-16 | 645 | 34 | 19.0:1 | 40% (261) |
| 2010-11 | 617 | 34 | 18.1:1 | 36% (223) |
| 2000-01 | 753 | 47 | 16.0:1 | 25% (192) |
| 1990-91 | 872 | 41 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for King's Grant Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (577 to 475); teachers up 3% (33.1 to 34.2).
About King's Grant Elementary
In Virginia Beach, Virginia, King's Grant Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 475 students.
In Virginia Beach City Public Schools, 82 schools enroll a combined 64,731 students.
A majority of students at King's Grant Elementary, 56%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 19% Black, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at King's Grant Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
Its 34.2 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 13.9:1. Elementary schools in Virginia average about 13.8:1, a similar figure. The school's lunch program data list 83% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 49% average for public schools in Virginia Beach city is 34 points.
King's Grant Elementary is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 66% of Virginia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, King's Grant Elementary would score about 65.5%. It scores 73.9%, 8.4 points above that figure.
In Virginia Beach city (population about 456,349), median household income is about $92,968, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. A total of 89 public schools operate in Virginia Beach city, serving about 64,731 students.
Kingston Elementary is the closest public school, about 0.7 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. King's Grant Elementary places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 475, close to the 481 recorded in 2020-21.
The King's Grant Elementary community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Virginia Beach city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
456,349
Census ACS
Median income
$92,968
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
64,731 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Virginia Beach City Public Schools
- Landstown HighHigh · 2,152 students
- Kempsville HighHigh · 2,046 students
- Bayside HighHigh · 1,984 students
- Tallwood HighHigh · 1,890 students
- Floyd Kellam HighHigh · 1,842 students
- Ocean Lakes HighHigh · 1,834 students
Other schools in Virginia Beach
- Landstown HighHigh · 2,152 students
- Kempsville HighHigh · 2,046 students
- Bayside HighHigh · 1,984 students
- Tallwood HighHigh · 1,890 students
- Floyd Kellam HighHigh · 1,842 students
- Ocean Lakes HighHigh · 1,834 students
Nearby schools
- Kingston Elementary0.7 mi · 518
- Malibu Elementary0.8 mi · 398
- Lynnhaven Elementary1.3 mi · 339
- Plaza Middle1.7 mi · 1,033
- Windsor Woods Elementary1.8 mi · 487
- Thalia Elementary2.0 mi · 590
Frequently asked questions
About King's Grant ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at King's Grant Elementary?
King's Grant Elementary enrolls approximately 475 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does King's Grant Elementary serve?
King's Grant Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at King's Grant Elementary?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at King's Grant Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at King's Grant Elementary?
At King's Grant Elementary, the student body is approximately 56% White, 12% Hispanic, 19% Black, 3% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is King's Grant Elementary in?
King's Grant Elementary is part of Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.