High · Virginia
Achievable Dream Middle/High
Free meals for allAchievable Dream Middle/High, a public high school in Newport News, Virginia: grades 6–12, 498 students, 10.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Newport News City Public Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 498
- Teachers (FTE)
- 50.0
- Students per teacher
- 10.0
- Grades
- 6–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 92% of high schools in Virginia
Median 13.9 · 325 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 81% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 78% of high schools in Virginia
Median 1,136 · 325 schools compared
Larger than 55% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Virginia's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Virginia: 72%70%proficient
+0.3 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 52% of high schools in Virginia
Median 71% · 42 high schools compared
254 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · Standards of Learning; proficient means Levels 2-3
Math
Virginia: 66%48%proficient
−5.3 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 69% of high schools in Virginia
Median 59% · 39 high schools compared
164 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · Standards of Learning; proficient means Levels 2-3
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 6–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Newport News City Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 5720 Marshall Ave., Newport News, VA 23605
- Phone
- (757)283-7820
- City or town
- Newport News
- County
- Newport News city
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Heritage HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,106 | 14.0 |
Hampton HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,301 | 14.2 |
Bethel HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,769 | 14.9 |
Warwick HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,622 | 14.8 |
Phoebus HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,391 | 16.1 |
Kecoughtan HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,553 | 14.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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