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Enrollment
498
Elementary
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWPORT NEWS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510264001075
T. Ryland Sanford Elementary
480 Colony Road, Newport News, VA 23602 · (757) 886-7778 · Newport News city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% 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
18.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
493 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 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
72%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
65.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +11.0pp since 2022
Math
62.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +9.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 11 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 9 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 54.0% | 53.0% |
% 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
58.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.1%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 T. Ryland Sanford Elementary
T. Ryland Sanford Elementary's state test result (58.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| T. Ryland Sanford Elementary this school | 498 | 99.0% | 58.8% |
| Richneck Elementary Newport News | 502 | 99.6% | 55.1% |
| Riverside Elementary Newport News | 506 | 99.0% | 48.8% |
| Larrymore Elementary Norfolk | 584 | 99.5% | 69.0% |
| Oliver C. Greenwood Elementary Newport News | 549 | 100.0% | 49.6% |
| Knollwood Meadows Elementary Newport News | 460 | 99.6% | 65.0% |
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 T. Ryland Sanford Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Newport News city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #860 of 1,101 | #10 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #857 of 1,111 ▲ 52 | #9 of 24 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #744 of 1,111 ▲ 156 | #7 of 24 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #586 of 1,176 | #11 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #1,078 of 1,105 | #17 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.8% | #149 of 1,106 | #3 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.0% | #188 of 1,157 | #22 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #339 of 759 | #13 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
498
+46 (+10%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 755
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 498 | 27 | 18.4:1 | 99% (493) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 28 | 16.2:1 | 97% (441) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 29 | 16.6:1 | 90% (434) |
| 2020-21 | 452 | 28 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 33 | 17.4:1 | 83% (480) |
| 2015-16 | 583 | 31 | 18.8:1 | 66% (384) |
| 2010-11 | 552 | 36 | 15.3:1 | 56% (308) |
| 2000-01 | 499 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 755 | 37 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for T. Ryland Sanford Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (576 to 498); teachers down 18% (33 to 27).
About T. Ryland Sanford Elementary
T. Ryland Sanford Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school for students in Newport News, Virginia. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 498 students.
T. Ryland Sanford Elementary is among 40 schools run by Newport News City Public Schools, which serves 25,882 students.
Of every 100 students at T. Ryland Sanford Elementary, about 42 are Black, the largest group. Other students are 24% White, 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census estimates put Newport News city at about 41% Black, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
There are 27 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 18.4:1. The gap from the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia is 4.6 students per teacher. On the income side, 99% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Newport News city is close, at 98%.
T. Ryland Sanford Elementary earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 27% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 61.1% for T. Ryland Sanford Elementary. The school posts 58.8%, 2.4 points below the prediction.
Census data for Newport News city show median household income comes to about $69,634, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 48 public schools and about 25,882 students.
A public school about 1.0 miles away, Denbigh High, is the closest to T. Ryland Sanford Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, T. Ryland Sanford Elementary ranks 5th on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around T. Ryland Sanford Elementary as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count rose 10% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 18.4:1, from 16.1:1.
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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 High1.0 mi · 1,269
- Willis A. Jenkins Elementary1.3 mi · 507
- B.C. Charles Elementary1.3 mi · 388
- Menchville High1.3 mi · 1,707
- Stoney Run Elementary1.4 mi · 453
- Knollwood Meadows Elementary1.5 mi · 460
Frequently asked questions
About T. Ryland Sanford ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at T. Ryland Sanford Elementary?
T. Ryland Sanford Elementary enrolls approximately 498 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does T. Ryland Sanford Elementary serve?
T. Ryland Sanford Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at T. Ryland Sanford Elementary?
Approximately 18.4:1 students per teacher at T. Ryland Sanford Elementary.
What is the student diversity at T. Ryland Sanford Elementary?
Student demographics at T. Ryland Sanford Elementary are roughly 24% White, 19% Hispanic, 42% Black, 4% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is T. Ryland Sanford Elementary in?
T. Ryland Sanford Elementary is part of Newport News City Public Schools.
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