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Virginia Beach City · Virginia

Virginia Beach, VA public schools

Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Virginia Beach City Public Schools — federal education data, not a star rating.

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Quick answer

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the primary public district for Virginia Beach, VA. It enrolls 65,456 students in 87 schools with 4,663 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $14,268 per pupil, 18% below the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.

Students enrolled
65,456NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
Schools in the district
87Operating school count
Students per teacher
14Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
Spending per pupil
$14,268Total current expenditure, FY2020

Who pays for schools in Virginia Beach

Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.

Local revenue
47.4%
$440,480,000
State revenue
43.2%
$401,480,000
Federal revenue
9.4%
$87,459,000

Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the Virginia Beach property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 53 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Reading the Virginia Beach numbers

What the 2021-22 NCES and FY2020 Census finance numbers say about this district.

$14,268 per pupil is 18% below the $17,320 metro median; only 29% of tracked districts spend less. Instruction takes 53 cents of each dollar — $7,511 per student — with the remainder on transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Funding is split roughly evenly — 47.4% local, 43.2% state — so both the local tax base and the VA aid formula matter to what this district can spend. Federal aid contributes 9.4%, near the typical share for a large urban district.

65,456 students across 87 schools averages 752 students per building, and the district is larger than the typical district covered here (44,998 students). The 14:1 student-to-teacher ratio is ordinary for this set of districts (median 15.2:1). It counts all FTE teachers district-wide, so actual class sizes run higher.

What this data covers

Read this before comparing districts.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is a large city district; figures are the district total (LEAID 5103840) and individual schools inside it vary widely. Independently authorised charter schools, private schools and regional vocational programs are counted separately by NCES and are not in these totals. Enrollment is the 2021-22 NCES collection; dollars are the FY2020 Census F-33 survey, the latest complete national release. The two years differ, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a live budget line.

Other Virginia Beach datasets on this site.

Statewide: Virginia cities · Virginia ZIP codes · Virginia sales tax · Virginia counties

Source: NCES Common Core of Data + Census F-33, via Urban Institute Education Data · rates as published for 2021-22 / FY2020

NCES LEAID 5103840. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.