King's Grant Elementary

Set in Virginia Beach, Virginia, King's Grant Elementary is a mid-sized elementary-level community, run under Virginia Beach City Public Schools. It teaches 475 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Virginia Beach City Public Schools, which oversees 82 schools and 64,731 students, King's Grant Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, King's Grant Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 19% Black, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Virginia Beach city's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, King's Grant Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.9%.

In the area at large, Virginia Beach city reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,968 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Virginia Beach city's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), King's Grant Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Kingston Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around King's Grant Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), King's Grant Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 76.2%.

King's Grant Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. King's Grant Elementary's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 577 (now 475). The White share of enrollment edged down from 61% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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