Public school / Primary
Southwestern Elementary
Chesapeake, Virginia
- NCES ID
- 510081000308
- District
- Chesapeake City Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Southwestern Elementary is a public primary school in Chesapeake, Virginia, run by Chesapeake City Public Schools. It enrols 544 students — the 32203rd largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.
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
544
Teachers
41.0
Students per teacher
13.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
90.8%
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.
Within Chesapeake 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.
- 1Grassfield High2,314 students
- 2Oscar F. Smith High2,291 students
- 3Western Branch High2,121 students
- 4Indian River High1,701 students
- 5Great Bridge High1,624 students
- 6Deep Creek High1,597 students
- 7Hickory High1,581 students
- 8Grassfield Elementary1,352 students
- Enrollment−6.0%
- Teachers+5.1%
- Students per teacher−5.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+37.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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