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Enrollment
413
Elementary
DISTRICT 648 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHESAPEAKE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510081000309
Sparrow Road Intermediate
1605 Sparrow Rd, Chesapeake, VA 23325 · (757) 578-7050 · Chesapeake city
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
301 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 216 | 52% |
| Grade 5 | 197 | 48% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Based on grade levels within Chesapeake City Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
64.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
68.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +11.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 11 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 59.0% |
| 2022-23 | 65.0% | 57.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sparrow Road Intermediate
Sparrow Road Intermediate's state test result (57.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparrow Road Intermediate this school | 413 | 72.9% | 57.5% |
| Oakland Elementary Suffolk | 464 | 68.8% | 84.1% |
| Nansemond Parkway Elementary Suffolk | 456 | 69.3% | 72.9% |
| Harrowgate Elementary Chester | 486 | 76.1% | 57.8% |
| G.A. Treakle Elementary Chesapeake | 440 | 72.3% | 77.9% |
| Kilby Shores Elementary Suffolk | 494 | 69.2% | 68.6% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sparrow Road Intermediate ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Chesapeake city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #877 of 1,101 | #18 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #722 of 1,111 ▲ 124 | #17 of 21 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #763 of 1,111 ▼ 57 | #17 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #783 of 1,176 | #24 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #644 of 1,105 | #10 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.2% | #396 of 1,106 | #14 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.9% | #616 of 1,157 | #14 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.7% | #278 of 759 | #4 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
413
-58 (-12%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 575
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 413 | 28.8 | 14.3:1 | 73% (301) |
| 2023-24 | 433 | 28.8 | 15.0:1 | 82% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 478 | 31.3 | 15.3:1 | 91% (437) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 31 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 490 | 36 | 13.6:1 | 64% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 490 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 57% (281) |
| 2010-11 | 473 | 25 | 18.9:1 | 57% (269) |
| 2000-01 | 552 | 34 | 16.2:1 | 43% (236) |
| 1990-91 | 575 | 24 | 24.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sparrow Road Intermediate.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (490 to 413); teachers down 20% (36 to 28.8).
About Sparrow Road Intermediate
Sparrow Road Intermediate is a small elementary school with its address in Chesapeake, Virginia. Students in grades 4 through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 413 students.
Chesapeake City Public Schools runs 45 schools with a combined 40,607 students. Sparrow Road Intermediate is one of them.
At 50%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Sparrow Road Intermediate combined. It is also 27% White, 11% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. Chesapeake city's residents are about 29% Black, 21 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Sparrow Road Intermediate belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 65%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 14.3:1, with 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. Across elementary schools in Virginia, the average ratio is about 13.8:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Sparrow Road Intermediate is 73%. Compared with the 49% average for public schools in Chesapeake city, the school's rate is higher.
allk12 grades Sparrow Road Intermediate a C-. The grade compares the school only with Virginia public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at Sparrow Road Intermediate are 10.8 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (57.5% actual, 68.3% predicted).
Federal survey data for Chesapeake city show that median household income is about $95,373, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. A total of 50 public schools operate in Chesapeake city, serving about 40,607 students.
The school nearest to Sparrow Road Intermediate is Norfolk Highlands Primary, at a distance of about 0.9 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Sparrow Road Intermediate is 8th on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Sparrow Road Intermediate had 471 students in 2020-21 and 413 in 2024-25, a 12% decrease.
Discussion on this page can cover sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Chesapeake city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
252,583
Census ACS
Median income
$95,373
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
40,607 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chesapeake City Public Schools
- Grassfield HighHigh · 2,345 students
- Oscar F. Smith HighHigh · 2,264 students
- Western Branch HighHigh · 2,138 students
- Deep Creek HighHigh · 1,691 students
- Indian River HighHigh · 1,634 students
- Hickory HighHigh · 1,600 students
Other schools in Chesapeake
- Grassfield HighHigh · 2,345 students
- Oscar F. Smith HighHigh · 2,264 students
- Western Branch HighHigh · 2,138 students
- Deep Creek HighHigh · 1,691 students
- Indian River HighHigh · 1,634 students
- Hickory HighHigh · 1,600 students
Nearby schools
- Norfolk Highlands Primary0.9 mi · 294
- College Park Elementary0.9 mi · 496
- Indian River Middle1.0 mi · 743
- Georgetown Primary1.3 mi · 804
- Woodstock Elementary1.3 mi · 689
- Indian River High1.4 mi · 1,634
Frequently asked questions
About Sparrow Road IntermediateWhat is the total enrollment at Sparrow Road Intermediate?
Sparrow Road Intermediate enrolls approximately 413 students in grades 04-05.
Is Sparrow Road Intermediate an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sparrow Road Intermediate is an elementary school covering grades 04-05.
How many teachers does Sparrow Road Intermediate have?
Sparrow Road Intermediate employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sparrow Road Intermediate?
At Sparrow Road Intermediate, the student body is approximately 27% White, 11% Hispanic, 50% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Sparrow Road Intermediate public or private?
Sparrow Road Intermediate is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chesapeake City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.