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Black student results in Portsmouth City

Across 19 schools in Portsmouth City, 55.1% of Black students meet pass rate. That is 9.1 points below the Virginia average for Black students.

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58.3%
All students
55.1%
Black
60.8%
Hispanic
72.9%
White
80%
Asian

Average across the 19 schools in Portsmouth City with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 19 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Churchland High reports 91.5% of Black students meeting the standard. Waterview Elementary, in the same district, reports 32.5%. That is a 59-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Portsmouth City

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting pass rate. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Churchland High 90.8% 91.5% 91.8% 91.4% 100%
Manor High 80.4% 77.8% 83.9% 86.8%
I.C. Norcom High 74.2% 74.2% 74.1% 87.5%
Churchland Elementary 72.2% 65.1% 79.3% 79.5% 80%
Churchland Primary & Intermediate 68.1% 64.9% 65.7% 88.7%
Churchland Academy Elementary 63% 59.8% 66% 80.8%
Park View Elementary 56.7% 58.6% 52% 60.5%
William E. Waters Middle 58.5% 54.7% 59.7% 72.2%
Victory Elementary 55.8% 54% 56.8% 63.5%
Brighton Elementary 54.4% 53.6% 51.1% 75%
Churchland Middle 58.5% 53.2% 73% 71.6%
Cradock Middle 51.5% 49% 53.8% 62.5%
Lakeview Elementary 49.1% 47.7% 54.2% 75%
Hodges Manor Elementary 51.4% 47.4% 43.5% 67.5%
Simonsdale Elementary 57.7% 45.7% 69.8% 69.1%
Westhaven Elementary 48.4% 43.4% 51.6% 73%
Cradock Elementary 42% 38.7% 40.2% 60% 60%
Douglass Park Elementary 36.2% 34.2% 44.2% 50%
Waterview Elementary 39.1% 32.5% 43.6% 70.4%

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

How to read this. Virginia suppresses results for groups with too few students tested, marking them with a caret rather than a value. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 1,588 of Virginia's schools have reportable data. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Virginia figures should not be compared against another state's.

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