Virginia Beach Middle

Virginia Beach Middle is a medium-sized intermediate school in Virginia Beach, Virginia, part of Virginia Beach City Public Schools. The school teaches 685 students in grades 6 through 8.

Virginia Beach Middle is one of 82 schools operated by Virginia Beach City Public Schools, a district that serves 64,731 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Virginia Beach Middle records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 20% Hispanic, 19% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Virginia Beach city as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Virginia Beach city's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Virginia Beach Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.4%, the actual is 76.6%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Virginia Beach city indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,968 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Virginia Beach city runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), of which Virginia Beach Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: W.T. Cooke Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Virginia Beach Middle at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 74.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Virginia Beach Middle's enrollment has ticked down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 879 (now 685). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 12% to 20%.

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