30 public K-12 schools in Hampton from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hampton has more public-school enrollment than 92% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hampton lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.
18 of Hampton's 30 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
Hampton's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 85th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 22-point gap between George P. Phenix Elementary and Alfred S. Forrest Elementary measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.
Hampton school enrollment ranges from 226 students (lowest) to 1,769 students (highest), a spread of 1,543 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Hampton's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | George P. Phenix Elementary | 60 |
| 2. | Thomas Eaton Middle | 58 |
| 3. | Moton Early Childhood Center | 58 |
| 4. | Francis W. Jones Magnet Middle | 56 |
| 5. | Mary T. Christian Elementary | 56 |
| 6. | Phoebus High | 54 |
| 7. | William Mason Cooper Elementary | 54 |
| 8. | Mary W. Jackson Elementary | 54 |
| 9. | Armstrong Elementary | 53 |
| 10. | Cesar Tarrant Middle | 52 |
| 11. | Samuel P. Langley Elementary | 52 |
| 12. | Barron Elementary | 52 |
| 13. | Albert W. Patrick Iii Elementary | 52 |
| 14. | Kecoughtan High | 51 |
| 15. | Bethel High | 50 |
| 16. | Hampton High | 50 |
| 17. | Luther W. Machen Elementary | 48 |
| 18. | Hunter B. Andrews | 47 |
| 19. | C. Alton Lindsay Middle | 47 |
| 20. | Jane H. Bryan Elementary | 47 |
| 21. | Captain John Smith Elementary | 46 |
| 22. | Phillips Elementary | 45 |
| 23. | Paul Burbank Elementary | 45 |
| 24. | Mary S. Peake Elementary | 45 |
| 25. | Christopher C. Kraft Elementary | 44 |
| 26. | Francis Asbury Elementary | 43 |
| 27. | A.W.E. Bassette Elementary | 42 |
| 28. | Benjamin Syms Middle | 39 |
| 29. | Aberdeen Elementary | 39 |
| 30. | Alfred S. Forrest Elementary | 38 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
George P. Phenix Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hampton schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Hampton has 30 public schools with a total enrollment of 19,472 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.8:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
