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Alumni: what's one memory from Stoney Run Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
453
Elementary
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWPORT NEWS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510264001054
Stoney Run Elementary
855 Lucas Creek Rd, Newport News, VA 23608 · (757) 886-7755 · Newport News city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL453 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of Virginia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
17.4:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
451 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
50.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +9.0pp since 2022
Math
46.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +18.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 18 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 40.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 28.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
44.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.0%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 61% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Stoney Run Elementary
Stoney Run Elementary's state test result (44.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoney Run Elementary this school | 453 | 99.6% | 44.5% |
| Camp Allen Elementary Norfolk | 405 | 99.8% | 64.8% |
| Willis A. Jenkins Elementary Newport News | 507 | 100.0% | 53.5% |
| Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary Newport News | 549 | 100.0% | 49.6% |
| Albert Harris Elementary Martinsville | 399 | 99.7% | 57.4% |
| Richneck Elementary Newport News | 502 | 99.6% | 55.1% |
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 Stoney Run Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Newport News city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #1,034 of 1,101 | #22 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,055 of 1,111 ▲ 15 | #22 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,011 of 1,111 ▲ 17 | #17 of 24 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 453 | #697 of 1,176 | #15 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,039 of 1,105 | #9 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #348 of 1,106 | #10 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #151 of 1,157 | #18 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #404 of 759 | #15 of 25 |
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
453
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 1,101
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 453 | 26 | 17.4:1 | 100% (451) |
| 2023-24 | 510 | 33 | 15.4:1 | 98% (501) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 27 | 17.1:1 | 91% (421) |
| 2020-21 | 458 | 36 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 510 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 84% (426) |
| 2015-16 | 548 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 83% (454) |
| 2010-11 | 578 | 41 | 14.1:1 | 74% (429) |
| 2000-01 | 1,411 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,101 | 48 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stoney Run Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (510 to 453); teachers down 16% (31 to 26).
About Stoney Run Elementary
Stoney Run Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Newport News City Public Schools, located in Newport News, Virginia. The student body numbers 453 students, from pre-K through 5.
Newport News City Public Schools (40 schools, 25,882 students) runs Stoney Run Elementary.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Stoney Run Elementary. The largest is Black students, at 49%. Other students are 25% Hispanic, 17% White, and 7% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal staffing data show 26 full-time-equivalent teachers at Stoney Run Elementary and a ratio of 17.4:1. That is 3.6 students per teacher above the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 100% of students. That tracks the 98% average for public schools in Newport News city.
The allk12 Grade for Stoney Run Elementary is D. Compared with Virginia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 6% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Stoney Run Elementary scores 16.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 44.5% actual versus 61.0% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Virginia schools on BeatsExpectations.
Newport News city has these Census figures: the median household income is $69,634, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. In all, Newport News city has 48 public schools and roughly 25,882 students.
Nearest public school: Denbigh High, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Stoney Run Elementary's average proficiency of 44.5% compares with 60.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 458 in 2020-21 and 453 in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 17.4 students per teacher, compared with 12.7 in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Newport News city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
184,216
Census ACS
Median income
$69,634
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
48
25,882 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Newport News City Public Schools
- Woodside HighHigh · 1,723 students
- Menchville HighHigh · 1,707 students
- Warwick HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Denbigh HighHigh · 1,269 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,106 students
- Ethel M. Gildersleeve MiddleMiddle · 1,087 students
Other schools in Newport News
- Woodside HighHigh · 1,723 students
- Menchville HighHigh · 1,707 students
- Warwick HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Denbigh HighHigh · 1,269 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,106 students
- Ethel M. Gildersleeve MiddleMiddle · 1,087 students
Nearby schools
- Denbigh High0.4 mi · 1,269
- Knollwood Meadows Elementary0.7 mi · 460
- David A. Dutrow Elementary0.8 mi · 341
- Mary Passage Middle1.2 mi · 931
- T. Ryland Sanford Elementary1.4 mi · 498
- George J. McIntosh Elementary1.6 mi · 446
Frequently asked questions
About Stoney Run ElementaryHow large is Stoney Run Elementary?
Stoney Run Elementary enrolls approximately 453 students in grades PK-05.
Is Stoney Run Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Stoney Run Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Stoney Run Elementary have?
Stoney Run Elementary employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Stoney Run Elementary?
At Stoney Run Elementary, the student body is approximately 17% White, 25% Hispanic, 49% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Stoney Run Elementary public or private?
Stoney Run Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Newport News City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.