Thalia Elementary

Set in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Thalia Elementary is an average-sized elementary school, run under Virginia Beach City Public Schools. It educates 590 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Virginia Beach City Public Schools, which oversees 82 schools and 64,731 students, Thalia Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Thalia Elementary lists that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% White, 15% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Virginia Beach city as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Thalia Elementary has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Virginia Beach city runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thalia Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.0%; this one delivers 72.5%.

Around the school, census data for Virginia Beach city shows median household income runs about $92,968, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Virginia Beach city's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), Thalia Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Princess Anne High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thalia Elementary. On composite proficiency, Thalia Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 79.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 590 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 43% to 32% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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