Ocean Lakes Elementary

Set in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Ocean Lakes Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Virginia Beach City Public Schools. It enrolls 530 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 64,731 students. Ocean Lakes Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ocean Lakes Elementary logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Ocean Lakes Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Virginia Beach city's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, Ocean Lakes Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.4%, the actual is 81.8%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Virginia Beach city shows the typical household earns roughly $92,968 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Virginia Beach city runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), of which Ocean Lakes Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Corporate Landing Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ocean Lakes Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 77.6%.

Ocean Lakes Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ocean Lakes Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 536 students in 2018 to 530 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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