Princess Anne High

Princess Anne High is a 9-12 campus of moderately sized scale in Virginia Beach, Virginia, one of the schools within Virginia Beach City Public Schools, educateing 1,621 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 1,213.

Princess Anne High is one of 82 schools operated by Virginia Beach City Public Schools, a district that enrolls 64,731 students overall.

On demographics, Princess Anne High logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 20% Black, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 113 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 32% of students at Princess Anne High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Virginia Beach city's rate of about 49%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Princess Anne High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.3%; this one delivers 82.5%.

Across the wider county, Virginia Beach city reports that median household earnings sit near $92,968, 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 Princess Anne High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Thalia Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Princess Anne High comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 75.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Princess Anne High's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,799 (now 1,621). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 58% to 47%.

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