Nansemond Parkway Elementary

Set in Suffolk, Virginia, Nansemond Parkway Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school, operated by Suffolk City Public Schools. It enrolls 456 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Suffolk City Public Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 14,565 students; Nansemond Parkway Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Nansemond Parkway Elementary records that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 30% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Suffolk city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nansemond Parkway Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.2%; this one delivers 72.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Suffolk city indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,666 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Suffolk city runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,565 students), of which Nansemond Parkway Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Nansemond River High, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nansemond Parkway Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nansemond Parkway Elementary has edged down 15%, going from 539 students in 2018 to 456 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 39% to 30% over that span.

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