Blair Middle, 730 Spotswood Ave.: grades 6 to 8, 1,134 students in fall 2025, state score 78.77 (Needs Intensive Support). Office: 757-628-2400.

Last checked Oct. 20, 2026. Sources: Blair Middle, Norfolk Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and the division’s 2026-27 boundary maps.

Blair Middle School serves sixth grade through eighth grade at 730 Spotswood Ave. for Norfolk Public Schools (NPS). It had 1,134 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

Who to call
Address 730 Spotswood Ave., Norfolk, VA 23517
Phone 757-628-2400
Grades 6 to 8
Student hours 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Office hours 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Website bms.npsk12.com
Division Norfolk Public Schools

Principal

Principal Shenay Lewis, according to the school’s website. The site also lists Jennifer Miller and Jesse Ellison as assistant principals.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 1,134 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,141 in fall 2024 and 1,072 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile.
  • Federal count: 1,072 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 13 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia rates schools two ways. Accreditation shows whether a school meets the state’s Standards of Accreditation; a fully accredited school “submitted all required evidence to the Department of Education as prescribed in the Standards of Accreditation,” the profile says. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score and one of four performance levels: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations or Needs Intensive Support.

  • Accreditation: Fully Accredited for 2025-26.
  • Framework score: 78.77, performance level Needs Intensive Support, in the state’s division summary.

Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed):

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
Reading 59% 61% 60%
Math 47% 49% 49%
Science 59% 62% 60%
History and social science 65% 63% 66%

The full profile also reports attendance, student groups, teacher data and spending.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Look up any address in the division’s Find My School map, or see the 2026-27 boundaries in its Redistricting Locator. Zones do not follow neighborhood or ZIP code lines, so check the address, not the area.

Feeder schools: we laid the division’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school boundary layers over the city’s 78,561 address points. These elementary zones make up the Blair Middle zone: W.H. Taylor Elementary (21%), Granby Elementary (18%), Larchmont Elementary (18%), Camp Allen Elementary (9%), James Monroe Elementary (8%), Sewells Point Elementary (7%) and St. Helena Elementary (7%). Only part of some of those zones falls inside it.

High school: addresses in the zone are assigned to Maury High (74%) and Granby High (26%). Middle and high school zones do not line up exactly, so classmates can split between high schools.

Calendar and bell times

From the division’s 2026-27 academic calendar (PDF):

  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: teacher workday, no school for students
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, schools closed
  • Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving holiday, schools closed
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break
  • Monday, Jan. 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, schools closed
  • March 29 to April 2, 2027: spring break
  • Friday, June 4, 2027: last day of school, early release

Students attend from 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. and the office is open 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. On a two-hour delay, school starts at 10:15 a.m.

Programs

Blair hosts the division’s Pre-Medical, Health, and Engineering program, a citywide middle school program. Entry “is application-based and requires completion of application components, including a written essay for rising middle school students,” the specialty programs page says.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Blair Middle serve?

Sixth grade through eighth grade. It is part of Norfolk Public Schools and had 1,134 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

How is Blair Middle rated by the state?

On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 78.77 and is rated Needs Intensive Support, and it is fully accredited for 2025-26, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.

What time does Blair Middle start?

Students attend from 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. A two-hour delay moves the start to 10:15 a.m.