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North Landing Elementary
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 83% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About North Landing Elementary
Set in Virginia Beach, Virginia, North Landing Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under Virginia Beach City Public Schools. It works with 463 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 82 schools in Virginia Beach City Public Schools (64,731 students total), North Landing Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, North Landing Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, 7% Black. Compared to Virginia Beach city overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, North Landing Elementary lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting North Landing Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 19% of students at North Landing Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Virginia Beach city runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, North Landing Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 82.9%; this one delivers 86.4%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Virginia Beach city indicate median household income runs about $92,968, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), North Landing Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Floyd Kellam High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Landing Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North Landing Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 83.9%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 461 students in 2018 compared to 463 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.
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