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Old Donation School

4633 Honeygrove Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23455

✓ Fully Accredited · 2025-2026
This year · 2025–26
10.0/10
Above state average
Last year · 2024–25
10.0/10
Above 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.

Old Donation School phone & website

Phone
(757) 648-3240
Principal
Joel Guldenschuh
Address
4633 Honeygrove Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23455
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.

10.0 · Test scores

SOL pass rate of 100.0% across all subjects — 100th percentile statewide.

10.0 · Academic progress

100% of students showed growth in reading and 100% in math — 100th percentile.

10.0 · Attendance

Chronic absenteeism of 1.1% — better attendance than 100% of peers statewide.

Year over year: 10.0 for 2025–26, compared with 10.0 for 2024–25 — unchanged.

Test scores by subject

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

This school Virginia average
Grade 5 Science
100%state 69%
Virginia Studies
100%state 71%
Grade 3 Mathematics
100%state 74%
Grade 4 Mathematics
100%state 73%
Grade 5 Mathematics
100%state 72%
Grade 3 English Reading
100%state 68%
Grade 4 English Reading
100%state 74%
Grade 5 English Reading
100%state 73%

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

Old Donation School & its school zone

Old Donation School serves Virginia Beach, VA 23455 students as a public elementary school in Virginia Beach Public Schools. Buyers searching homes for sale near Old Donation School are shopping this Virginia Beach school zone, one of the areas families compare when weighing Virginia Beach elementary school zones. On the VaHome School Score the school earns 10.0/10 — above 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 10.0.

The school's overall SOL pass rate is 100.0%, with standout results in Grade 3 English Reading (100% vs a 68% state average) and Grade 5 Science (100% vs a 69% state average). On Virginia's 2025–26 growth measures, 100% of students showed growth in English reading and 100% in math. Chronic absenteeism is 1.1%, better than the 9.0% state median for elementary schools.

For house hunters comparing Virginia Beach school zones, the listings on this page show active REIN MLS homes near Old Donation School. School zoning and attendance boundaries can change between school years — always verify a specific address's assignment directly with Virginia Beach 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
Virginia Beach City Public Schools
Grades served
2-8
School type
Public magnet / full-time centralized gifted school (grades 2-8)
Established
2014 · this campus 2017
Enrollment
1,357 students (2025-2026)
Student–teacher ratio
16:1
Classroom teachers
86.2 FTE
Accreditation
Fully Accredited (2025-2026)
NCES school ID
510384001353

Academic performance

SOL pass rates · 2025-2026
Reading
100%
Mathematics
100%
Science
100%
History & Social Sci.
100%

Attendance

2025-2026

1.1% 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.

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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