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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

James Monroe Elementary

Norfolk, Virginia

NCES ID
510267002211
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

James Monroe Elementary is a public primary school in Norfolk, Virginia, run by Norfolk City Public Schools. It enrols 270 students — the 69678th largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

270students

69678th nationally, tied with 126

Teachers

26.0FTE

50791st nationally, tied with 2,332

Students per teacher

10.4students

10851st nationally, tied with 436

Free or reduced-price lunch

99.6%percent

4096th nationally, tied with 227

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Norfolk City Public Schools

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Norview High1,915 students
  2. 2Granby High1,837 students
  3. 3Matthew Fontaine Maury High1,697 students
  4. 4Norview Middle1,259 students
  5. 5Blair Middle1,149 students
  6. 6Lake Taylor High1,030 students
  7. 7Booker T Washington High947 students
  8. 8Azalea Gardens Middle848 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Virginia median across 2,163 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−53.4%
  • Teachers−33.3%
  • Students per teacher−25.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+50.6%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.