Princess Anne Middle

Princess Anne Middle is a well-populated 6-8 campus in Virginia Beach, Virginia, operated by Virginia Beach City Public Schools. The school works with 1,358 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 81% larger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 750 students.

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

Demographically, Princess Anne Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, The school lists 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Virginia Beach city runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Princess Anne Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.1%, the actual is 92.5%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Virginia Beach city indicate 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%. Across Virginia Beach city's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), Princess Anne Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Princess Anne Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Princess Anne Middle. On composite proficiency, Princess Anne Middle comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 86.7%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 1,509 students in 2018 compared to 1,358 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 78% to 73%.

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