Ocean View Elementary

Ocean View Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus in Norfolk, Virginia, overseen by Norfolk City Public Schools. The school hosts 512 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 44 schools in Norfolk City Public Schools (26,807 students total), Ocean View Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Ocean View Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 29% Black, 21% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Norfolk city as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 98% of students at Ocean View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ocean View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of -5.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Norfolk city indicate median household income runs about $66,109, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Norfolk city's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,807 students), Ocean View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Willoughby Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ocean View Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Ocean View Elementary's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 681 (now 512). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 37% to 33%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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