Park View Elementary

Park View Elementary is a small elementary school for students in Portsmouth, Virginia. Students in kindergarten through 6 attend, and enrollment is 400 students.

Park View Elementary is part of Portsmouth City Public Schools, where 22 schools serve 12,905 students.

Black students make up a majority at Park View Elementary, at 76%. Next come 9% White, 8% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 51% Black among all Portsmouth city residents. Park View Elementary's diversity index is 41%, against a US figure of 70%.

Federal data list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers at Park View Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 11.8:1. That is 2.1 students per teacher below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia.

Park View Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 54.0%, compared with a predicted 60.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Virginia schools on BeatsExpectations.

Within Portsmouth city, the median household income is $60,491, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 24 public schools in Portsmouth city, enrolling about 12,905 students in all.

The school nearest to Park View Elementary is I.C. Norcom High, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Park View Elementary ranks 3rd in a group of 7 nearby schools.

In the federal locale system, Park View Elementary is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

The school enrolled 400 students in 2024-25, 141 fewer than the 541 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.4:1 to 11.8:1.

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