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How has Larchmont Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
455
Elementary
DISTRICT 435 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORFOLK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510267001108
Larchmont Elementary
1145 Bolling Ave, Norfolk, VA 23508 · (757) 451-4180 · Norfolk city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL455 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Virginia public elementary schools
- B+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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
454 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 26 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
87.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +4.0pp since 2022
Math
79.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +5.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 87 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 4 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 5 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 84.0% | 80.0% |
| 2022-23 | 83.0% | 74.0% |
% 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
80.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.9%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% 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 Larchmont Elementary
Larchmont Elementary's state test result (80.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larchmont Elementary this school | 455 | 99.8% | 80.0% |
| Bedford Hills Elementary Lynchburg | 402 | 98.0% | 59.9% |
| Northumberland Elementary Heathsville | 503 | 99.2% | 70.6% |
| Hilton Elementary Newport News | 368 | 99.2% | 78.8% |
| Clarksville Elementary Skipwith | 432 | 95.1% | 76.4% |
| Paul Munro Elementary Lynchburg | 356 | 97.2% | 82.4% |
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 Larchmont Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Norfolk city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #308 of 1,101 | #2 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #434 of 1,111 ▼ 80 | #3 of 29 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #148 of 1,111 ▲ 51 | #1 of 29 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #691 of 1,176 | #16 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #949 of 1,105 | #30 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.6% | #491 of 1,106 | #13 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.8% | #129 of 1,157 | #17 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.9% | #273 of 759 | #15 of 27 |
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
455
-12 (-3%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 703
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 455 | 28 | 16.3:1 | 100% (454) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 32 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 31 | 15.2:1 | 97% (458) |
| 2020-21 | 467 | 32 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 541 | 31.5 | 17.2:1 | 23% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 19% (100) |
| 2010-11 | 540 | 32 | 16.9:1 | 20% (108) |
| 2000-01 | 617 | 38 | 16.2:1 | 41% (253) |
| 1990-91 | 703 | 35 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Larchmont Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (541 to 455); teachers down 11% (31.5 to 28).
About Larchmont Elementary
Norfolk, Virginia, is home to Larchmont Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 455 students on the rolls.
Federal data list 44 schools in Norfolk City Public Schools, with 26,807 students enrolled.
The student body at Larchmont Elementary is 54% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 25% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 43%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 63, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Larchmont Elementary comes to 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.3:1. Elementary schools in Virginia have an average ratio of 13.8:1. On the income side, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 98% average for public schools in Norfolk city.
Larchmont Elementary holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 87% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Larchmont Elementary is a top-10% school in Virginia on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 60.9% with an actual 80.0%.
Census data for Norfolk city show the median household earns about $66,109 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting Larchmont Elementary, Norfolk city has 54 public schools.
James Monroe Elementary is about 1.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Larchmont Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Larchmont Elementary is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Larchmont Elementary has an NCES locale of City: Mid-size.
The school shrank from 467 students in 2020-21 to 455 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 14.6:1 to 16.3:1.
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Norfolk city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
233,596
Census ACS
Median income
$66,109
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
26,807 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Norfolk City Public Schools
- Granby HighHigh · 1,980 students
- Matthew Fontaine Maury HighHigh · 1,713 students
- Norview HighHigh · 1,585 students
- Norview MiddleMiddle · 1,196 students
- Blair MiddleMiddle · 1,141 students
- Lake Taylor HighHigh · 1,107 students
Other schools in Norfolk
- Granby HighHigh · 1,980 students
- Matthew Fontaine Maury HighHigh · 1,713 students
- Norview HighHigh · 1,585 students
- Norview MiddleMiddle · 1,196 students
- Blair MiddleMiddle · 1,141 students
- Lake Taylor HighHigh · 1,107 students
Other Larchmont Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Larchmont Elementary. Larchmont Elementary is the largest of the 4.
- Larchmont Elementary SchoolToledo, OH · 394 students
- Larchmont Elementary SchoolMOUNT LAUREL, NJ · 370 students
- Larchmont Elementary SchoolTacoma, WA · 303 students
Nearby schools
- James Monroe Elementary1.2 mi · 299
- Walter Herron Taylor Elementary1.5 mi · 403
- Blair Middle1.6 mi · 1,141
- Granby Elementary1.6 mi · 464
- Granby High1.7 mi · 1,980
- Matthew Fontaine Maury High1.8 mi · 1,713
Frequently asked questions
About Larchmont ElementaryHow large is Larchmont Elementary?
Larchmont Elementary enrolls approximately 455 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Larchmont Elementary serve?
Larchmont Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Larchmont Elementary?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at Larchmont Elementary.
How diverse is Larchmont Elementary?
Larchmont Elementary reports a student body of 54% White, 9% Hispanic, 25% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Larchmont Elementary?
Larchmont Elementary is overseen by Norfolk City Public Schools in Norfolk city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.