Shelton Park Elementary

Shelton Park Elementary is a tight-knit primary school in Virginia Beach, Virginia, one of the schools within Virginia Beach City Public Schools. The school works with 416 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools comprises 82 schools with combined enrollment of 64,731 students; Shelton Park Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Shelton Park Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 15% multiracial, 15% Hispanic, 12% Black, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Shelton Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.5%.

In the surrounding community, Virginia Beach city reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,968 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Virginia Beach city's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), Shelton Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Hermitage Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Shelton Park Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 75.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shelton Park Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 423 students in 2018 to 416 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 15% across the same window.

On allk12, the feed for Shelton Park Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.