Southeastern Elementary

Southeastern Elementary is a heavily attended primary school in Chesapeake, Virginia, one of the schools within Chesapeake City Public Schools. The school hosts 828 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 66% larger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Across the 45 schools in Chesapeake City Public Schools (40,607 students total), Southeastern Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Southeastern Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Chesapeake city as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Southeastern Elementary has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 13% of students at Southeastern Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Chesapeake city's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Southeastern Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.5%, the actual is 84.6%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Chesapeake city indicate the typical household earns roughly $95,373 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Chesapeake city's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,607 students), Southeastern Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Hickory Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southeastern Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Southeastern Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 87.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 821 students in 2018 compared to 828 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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