Malibu Elementary

Located at 3632 Edinburgh Dr, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Malibu Elementary is an intimate elementary school that enrolls 398 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 20% leaner than typical.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools comprises 82 schools with combined enrollment of 64,731 students; Malibu Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Malibu Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 19% Black, 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Malibu Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Virginia Beach city's rate of about 49%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Malibu Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Virginia Beach city put median household income runs about $92,968, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Virginia Beach city runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), of which Malibu Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: King's Grant Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Malibu Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Malibu Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 76.8%.

Malibu Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Malibu Elementary's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 418 (now 398). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 59% to 53%.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Malibu Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.