Kingston Elementary

Set in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Kingston Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school, part of Virginia Beach City Public Schools. It works with 518 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 64,731 students. Kingston Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Kingston Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Virginia Beach city (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Kingston Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 85.2%, the actual is 88.1%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Virginia Beach city put 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%. In all, Virginia Beach city runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), of which Kingston Elementary is one.

King's Grant Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kingston Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kingston Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 74.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Kingston Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 526 (now 518). The Asian share of enrollment fell from 8% to 3% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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