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Norview Middle
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 6 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 64% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Norview Middle
Norview Middle is an intermediate school of high-enrollment scale in Norfolk, Virginia, operated by Norfolk City Public Schools, instructing 1,196 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 750 students per school, that is 59% above typical.
Norview Middle is one of 44 schools operated by Norfolk City Public Schools, a district that serves 26,807 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Norview Middle logs that Black students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder reads as 18% Hispanic, 9% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Norfolk city as a whole is about 40% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Norview Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Norfolk city (around 98%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Norview Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 63.9%; actual is 47.3%, a gap of -16.6 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Norfolk city put median household income runs about $66,109, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Norfolk city runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,807 students), of which Norview Middle is one.
Nearest neighbor: Norview Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Norview Middle at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.0%.
Norview Middle operates from an urban location.
Over the past 7-year window. Norview Middle's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 1,060 (now 1,196). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 10% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.
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