Elementary · Virginia

Northern Shores Elementary

Free meals for all

Northern Shores Elementary, a public elementary school in Suffolk, Virginia: grades pre-k–5, 798 students, 19.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Suffolk City Public Schools.

Size and class size

Compared with elementary 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: 798
Teachers (FTE): 41.0
Students per teacher: 19.5
Grades: Pre-K–5; Elementary

More students per teacher than 99% of elementary schools in Virginia

Median 13.9 · 1,143 schools compared

More students per teacher than 85% of elementary schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared

Larger than 92% of elementary schools in Virginia

Median 503 · 1,144 schools compared

Larger than 94% of elementary schools in the US

Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared

What it offers

Grades: Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
Type: District school · Regular
Instruction: Some virtual classes
Meals: Free breakfast and lunch for every student
Area: Large suburb
Run by: Suffolk City Public Schools

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Suffolk City Public Schools.

Location

Address: 6701 Respass Beach Rd, Suffolk, VA 23435
Phone: (757)923-4169
City or town: Suffolk
County: Suffolk city

Website Quality of life in Suffolk Schools in Suffolk

Nearby elementary schools

The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Churchland Primary & IntermediateFree meals for all	K–6	503	14.0	1.6 mi
Churchland Academy ElementaryFree meals for all	K–6	626	15.7	1.9 mi
Churchland ElementaryFree meals for all	K–6	721	16.4	2.7 mi
Western Branch PrimaryFree meals for all	Pre-K–2	801	16.6	3.1 mi
Western Branch IntermediateFree meals for all	3–5	795	17.2	3.2 mi
Creekside ElementaryFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	764	16.3	3.9 mi

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).

Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.

NCES 510371001475