Benjamin Syms Middle School, Hampton, VA

At a glance

School district: Hampton City Public Schools
Grades served: 6-8
School type: Public
Principal: Ms. Patrina L. Jenkins
Mascot & colors: Spartans · Burgundy, Gold
Enrollment: 850 students (2024-2025)
Student–teacher ratio: 15:1
Classroom teachers: 56.5 FTE
Accreditation: Fully Accredited (2024-2025)
NCES school ID: 510180000730

Academic performance

SOL pass rates · 2024-2025

Reading

68%

Mathematics

71%

Science

67%

History & Social Sci.

66%

About Benjamin Syms Middle School

Benjamin Syms Middle School is a public middle school serving grades 6-8 in the Hampton City Public Schools division, located at 170 Fox Hill Road in the Fox Hill area of Hampton, Virginia. The school is named for Benjamin Syms, a colonist who in 1634 endowed a free school in Elizabeth City County by donating 200 acres of land and eight cows to educate local children; that endowment is often cited as the origin of one of the earliest free schools in colonial America and is memorialized in the later Syms-Eaton Academy. The current middle school carries the Syms name and feeds into Kecoughtan High School.

The school sits in a large-suburban locale on the lower Virginia Peninsula near the Chesapeake Bay. In the 2024-2025 school year it enrolled roughly 850 students and was fully accredited by the Virginia Department of Education. Its mascot is the Spartan and its colors are burgundy and gold.

Contact

Phone: (757) 850-5050
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Monday - Friday

Official school website ↗

Data sources

NCES Common Core of Data - Search for Public Schools — NCES School ID, district, address, phone, grades, locale, total enrollment, FTE teachers, student/teacher ratio, free-lunch count, race/ethnicity counts2024-2025 (directory 2025-2026 preliminary) link ↗
Virginia School Quality Profiles - Benjamin Syms Middle — Accreditation status, SOL pass rates (reading/math/science/history), enrollment, demographics (econ disadvantaged, EL, SWD, race/ethnicity), principal2024-2025 link ↗
Syms Middle School official website — Phone, fax, office hours, mascot (Spartan), colors (burgundy and gold), address2026 link ↗
Wikipedia - Syms-Eaton Academy — Historical background of Benjamin Syms' 1634 free-school endowment (namesake context)historical link ↗
Wikimedia Commons media search — Checked for freely-licensed building photo - none found2026 link ↗

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