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Old Donation School

4633 Honeygrove Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23455

✓ Fully Accredited · 2025-2026
8/10
Above average
GreatSchools

Profile data: NCES & Virginia DOE (sources cited below). Rating: GreatSchools.org, April 2026. School boundaries can change — verify zoning with the district before relying on it.

At a glance

School district
Virginia Beach City Public Schools
Grades served
2-8
School type
Public magnet / full-time centralized gifted school (grades 2-8)
Principal
Joel Guldenschuh
Established
2014 · this campus 2017
Enrollment
1,377 students (2024-2025)
Student–teacher ratio
16:1
Classroom teachers
86.2 FTE
Accreditation
Fully Accredited (2025-2026)
NCES school ID
510384001353

Academic performance

SOL pass rates · 2024-2025
Reading
100%
Mathematics
100%
Science
100%
History & Social Sci.
70%

Attendance

2024-2025

1.96% of students were chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days).

About Old Donation School

Old Donation School (ODS) is a centralized, full-time gifted school in the Virginia Beach City Public Schools division, serving identified gifted students in grades two through eight. The present school was created in 2014 through the merger of Kemps Landing Magnet School (opened September 1995 for gifted middle-grades students) and the Old Donation Center (established after a March 17, 1998 Virginia Beach School Board vote to create a single-site gifted elementary school). Admission is application-based and requires students to meet Virginia Beach City Public Schools' criteria for gifted identification. The school houses a general intellectual aptitude program along with gifted dance and gifted visual arts programs.

The school occupies a roughly 13-acre site at 4633 Honeygrove Road in the northern part of Virginia Beach, near the Bayside/Independence Boulevard corridor. Its current facility, a LEED Gold-certified building of about 225,785 square feet organized around a central commons with separate elementary and middle-school academic wings, was completed in April 2017. NCES classifies the location as a large-city locale.

Contact

Phone
757-648-3240
Official school website ↗

Data sources

  • NCES Common Core of Data - Old Donation School — NCES School ID, district, total enrollment, enrollment by grade, FTE teachers, student/teacher ratio, locale, race/ethnicity counts, free/reduced lunch2024-2025 (directory 2025-2026) link ↗
  • Virginia School Quality Profiles - Old Donation School — Accreditation status, SOL pass rates, demographics (economically disadvantaged, English learners, students with disabilities, race/ethnicity), chronic absenteeism, enrollment2024-2025 accountability; 2025-2026 accreditation link ↗
  • Old Donation School official website — Principal, assistant principals, phone number, founding/history, program details2026 link ↗
  • VBCPS - Old Donation School (sustainability page) — Building facts: ~225,785 sq ft, LEED Gold, completed April 2017, 13-acre sitecurrent link ↗
  • Wikimedia Commons media search — No freely-licensed building photo foundchecked 2026-07 link ↗

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

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