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Enrollment
549
Elementary
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWPORT NEWS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510264002068
Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary
13460 Woodside Lane, Newport News, VA 23608 · (757) 886-7744 · Newport News city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL549 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Virginia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
549 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
59.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +10.0pp since 2022
Math
60.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +24.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 24 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 45.0% |
| 2022-23 | 49.0% | 36.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.9%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary
Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary's state test result (49.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary this school | 549 | 100.0% | 49.6% |
| Larrymore Elementary Norfolk | 584 | 99.5% | 69.0% |
| T. Ryland Sanford Elementary Newport News | 498 | 99.0% | 58.8% |
| Richneck Elementary Newport News | 502 | 99.6% | 55.1% |
| Stoney Run Elementary Newport News | 453 | 99.6% | 44.5% |
| Willis A. Jenkins Elementary Newport News | 507 | 100.0% | 53.5% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Newport News city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #978 of 1,101 | #16 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #893 of 1,111 ▲ 120 | #13 of 24 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #875 of 1,111 ▲ 139 | #12 of 24 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 549 | #466 of 1,176 | #7 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #1,055 of 1,105 | #12 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #191 of 1,106 | #4 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #116 of 1,157 | #12 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.5% | #188 of 759 | #8 of 25 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
549
-15 (-3%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 940
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 18.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 549 | 31 | 17.7:1 | 100% (549) |
| 2023-24 | 541 | 31 | 17.4:1 | 98% (528) |
| 2022-23 | 552 | 32.3 | 17.1:1 | 90% (496) |
| 2020-21 | 564 | 30 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 682 | 35 | 19.5:1 | 66% (450) |
| 2015-16 | 675 | 34 | 19.9:1 | 60% (407) |
| 2010-11 | 656 | 41 | 16.0:1 | 54% (354) |
| 2000-01 | 817 | 52 | 15.7:1 | 40% (326) |
| 1990-91 | 940 | 43 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (682 to 549); teachers down 11% (35 to 31).
About Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary
Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary is a public medium-sized elementary school in Newport News, Virginia. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 549 students.
The district for Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary is Newport News City Public Schools, with 40 schools and 25,882 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary. The largest is Black students, at 43%. The next largest groups are 25% Hispanic, 18% White, 9% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The Black share in Newport News city as a whole is similar, at about 41%. The school's diversity index is 71%, meaning two students picked at random have a 71% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The ratio of students to teachers is 17.7:1, with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That is 3.9 students per teacher above the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 100%. That tracks the 98% average for public schools in Newport News city.
Measured against Virginia public elementary schools, Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Virginia schools: 49.6% actual against 60.9% predicted.
In Newport News city (population about 184,216), the median household income is $69,634, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary is one of 48 public schools in the county.
Nearby, Woodside High is about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles of Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
In the federal locale system, Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment declined 3% from its 2020-21 level of 564. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2020-21 to 17.7:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Newport News city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
184,216
Census ACS
Median income
$69,634
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
48
25,882 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Newport News City Public Schools
- Woodside HighHigh · 1,723 students
- Menchville HighHigh · 1,707 students
- Warwick HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Denbigh HighHigh · 1,269 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,106 students
- Ethel M. Gildersleeve MiddleMiddle · 1,087 students
Other schools in Newport News
- Woodside HighHigh · 1,723 students
- Menchville HighHigh · 1,707 students
- Warwick HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Denbigh HighHigh · 1,269 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,106 students
- Ethel M. Gildersleeve MiddleMiddle · 1,087 students
Nearby schools
- Woodside High0.3 mi · 1,723
- Richneck Elementary1.3 mi · 502
- Ella J. Fitzgerald Middle1.6 mi · 988
- Denbigh Early Childhood Center1.8 mi · 397
- George J. McIntosh Elementary1.9 mi · 446
- Yorktown Elementary2.0 mi · 599
Frequently asked questions
About Oliver C. Greenwood ElementaryHow many students attend Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary?
Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary enrolls approximately 549 students in grades PK-05.
Is Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary have?
Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary?
At Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 18% White, 25% Hispanic, 43% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary in?
Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary is part of Newport News City Public Schools.
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