Cradock Technical & Career Cen…, Portsmouth, VA

At a glance

School district: Portsmouth City Public Schools (Portsmouth Public Schools)
Grades served: Ungraded (career/technical center; students are enrolled at their home high schools and attend for CTE coursework)
School type: Public career & technical education (CTE) center — vocational/technical, ungraded
NCES school ID: 510300002301

About Cradock Technical & Career Center

Cradock Technical & Career Center is a career and technical education (CTE) facility operated by Portsmouth Public Schools at 4300 George Washington Highway in the Cradock area of Portsmouth, Virginia. As a district CTE center it is listed by NCES and aggregators as an ungraded school with no standing graded enrollment; students remain enrolled at their home high schools (such as I.C. Norcom High and Manor High) and travel to the center for hands-on technical coursework. Because it is not a comprehensive, degree-granting high school, it does not have its own Virginia School Quality Profile with SOL, graduation, or demographic reporting.

The center sits in Cradock, one of the earliest federally planned communities in the United States. Cradock was developed in 1918 by the U.S. Housing Corporation to house the rapid influx of workers at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during World War I, built on the 310-acre former Afton Farm along Paradise Creek and named for British Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. The neighborhood, laid out with a commercial square, churches, recreation areas, and a streetcar line to the shipyard, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Local histories note the Cradock name was later applied to the former Alfred J. Mapp Junior High building after the original Cradock High School closed in 1993.

Contact

Phone: (757) 393-8117

Data sources

NCES Common Core of Data — Portsmouth City Public Schools school list — Confirmed the district (NCES district ID 5103000) and its schools; the career center is not surfaced as a separate graded record in the district roster (23 results, mostly elementary/middle/high/preschool)2024-25 link ↗
NeighborhoodScout — Cradock Technical & Career Center — NCES-format school identifier (510300002301), classification as vocational/technical, address, phone; test-score and enrollment fields shown as unreported2024-25 link ↗
GreatSchools — Cradock Technical & Career Center — Address, phone (757) 393-8117, district, 'Grade Ungraded', enrollment/demographics listed as unavailable (0 students reported)2024-25 link ↗
Virginia School Quality Profiles (schoolquality.virginia.gov) — No profile exists (HTTP 404) — the CTE center has no state SOL/graduation/demographic report of its own2024-25 link ↗
Wikipedia — Cradock Historic District — Neighborhood founding history: 1918 U.S. Housing Corporation planned community for Norfolk Naval Shipyard WWI workers; 310 acres; NRHP listing 1974n/a (historical) link ↗
Sears Modern Homes / historical accounts of Cradock — Corroborates Cradock as one of America's first planned communities, named for Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, streets named for U.S. naval heroesn/a (historical) link ↗

Figures reflect the 2024-25 (NCES/aggregator listings); the center reports no graded enrollment of its own unless noted. School zoning, boundaries, and ratings change — verify with the school division before making housing decisions.

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