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Simonsdale Elementary School

4841 Clifford Street, Portsmouth, VA 23701 · Home of the Eagles

✓ Fully Accredited · 2025-2026
This year · 2025–26
2.3/10
Below state average
Last year · 2024–25
2.3/10
Below state average
No change from 2024–25
VaHome School Score

Rating: VaHome School Score, computed from Virginia Department of Education data (2025–26) — methodology on this page. Profile data: NCES & Virginia DOE. School boundaries can change — verify zoning with the district before relying on it.

Simonsdale Elementary School phone & mascot

Phone
(757) 465-2917
Mascot
Eagles
Principal
Tammy King
Address
4841 Clifford Street, Portsmouth, VA 23701
Official school website ↗

Score breakdown

Compared against all 1,074 Virginia public elementary schools. 1–4 is below the state average, 5–6 around it, 7–10 above it.

2.2 · Test scores

SOL pass rate of 55.6% across all subjects — 13th percentile statewide.

2.2 · Academic progress

70% of students showed growth in reading and 67% in math — 13th percentile.

2.5 · Attendance

Chronic absenteeism of 14.4% — better attendance than 17% of peers statewide.

Year over year: 2.3 for 2025–26, compared with 2.3 for 2024–25 — unchanged.

Test scores by subject

Percent of students passing Virginia SOL tests, 2025–26.

This school Virginia average
Grade 5 Science
64%state 69%
Virginia Studies
56%state 71%
Grade 3 Mathematics
49%state 74%
Grade 4 Mathematics
58%state 73%
Grade 5 Mathematics
46%state 72%
Grade 3 English Reading
48%state 68%
Grade 4 English Reading
65%state 74%
Grade 5 English Reading
57%state 73%

Source: Virginia Department of Education, School Quality Profiles — SOL pass rates, 2025–26.

Simonsdale Elementary School & its school zone

Simonsdale Elementary School serves Portsmouth, VA 23701 students as a public elementary school in Portsmouth Public Schools. Buyers searching homes for sale near Simonsdale Elementary School are shopping this Portsmouth school zone, one of the areas families compare when weighing Portsmouth elementary school zones. On the VaHome School Score the school earns 2.3/10 — below the state average among Virginia's 1,074 public elementary schools, based on Virginia Department of Education data for 2025–26. That matches its 2024–25 score of 2.3.

The school's overall SOL pass rate is 55.6%. On Virginia's 2025–26 growth measures, 70% of students showed growth in English reading and 67% in math. Chronic absenteeism is 14.4%, compared with the 9.0% state median for elementary schools.

For house hunters comparing Portsmouth school zones, the listings on this page show active REIN MLS homes near Simonsdale Elementary School. School zoning and attendance boundaries can change between school years — always verify a specific address's assignment directly with Portsmouth Public Schools before making a housing decision based on school zone.

How the VaHome School Score works

  • Test scores (50%): the school's SOL pass rate across all subjects, ranked against every Virginia public school of the same level.
  • Academic progress (30%): Virginia's growth rates — the share of students who showed year-over-year growth in English reading and in math — ranked statewide.
  • Attendance (20%): chronic absenteeism, ranked statewide (lower is better).
  • What changed for 2025–26: Virginia retired the accreditation “combined rate” we used for academic progress in 2024–25, so progress now uses the state's student growth rates. Virginia publishes no growth measure for high schools, so their 20% now goes to attendance. The year-over-year comparison at the top uses the score we published for 2024–25; part of a school's change can come from this method update.
  • The weighted statewide percentile maps to a score from 1.0 to 10.0: score = 1 + 9 × percentile. 1–4 is below the state average, 5–6 around it, 7–10 above it.
  • Every input is public data from the Virginia Department of Education, refreshed each school year. No opinions, no black box — you can check our math.

Data: Virginia Department of Education School Quality Profiles (2025–26) · NCES. VaHome is not affiliated with VDOE, NCES, or GreatSchools.

At a glance

School district
Portsmouth City Public Schools
Grades served
KG-6
School type
Public
Enrollment
564 students (2025-2026)
Student–teacher ratio
15:1
Classroom teachers
40 FTE
Accreditation
Fully Accredited (2025-2026)
NCES school ID
510300001257

Academic performance

SOL pass rates · 2025-2026
Reading
57%
Mathematics
52%
Science
64%
History & Social Sci.
56%

Attendance

2025-2026

14.4% of students were chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days).

About Simonsdale Elementary School

Simonsdale Elementary School is a public K-6 school in Portsmouth City Public Schools, located at 4841 Clifford Street in the Simonsdale neighborhood on the west side of Portsmouth, Virginia. It enrolls approximately 613 students and is staffed by about 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, giving a student-teacher ratio of roughly 15 to 1.

The school occupies a modern, LEED-certified two-story facility. Its student body is roughly split between Black and White students, with smaller shares of Hispanic and multiracial students, and about two-thirds of students are economically disadvantaged. For the 2025-2026 school year the school holds Full Accreditation from the Virginia Department of Education.

Data sources

Figures reflect the 2025-2026 (Virginia DOE SOL, attendance, enrollment); 2024-2025 (NCES staffing); accreditation SY2025-2026 unless noted. School zoning, boundaries, and ratings change — verify with the school division before making housing decisions.

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