Suburban Park Elementary

Suburban Park Elementary is a primary school of compact scale in Norfolk, Virginia, run under Norfolk City Public Schools, instructing 415 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 44 schools in Norfolk City Public Schools (26,807 students total), Suburban Park Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Suburban Park Elementary records that the largest single group is Black, at 60% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 40% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Suburban Park Elementary has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Suburban Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Suburban Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 56.3%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Norfolk city shows the typical household earns roughly $66,109 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Norfolk city's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,807 students), Suburban Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Granby High, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Suburban Park Elementary. On composite proficiency, Suburban Park Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 464 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 66% to 60%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

On this page, members of the Suburban Park Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.