Booker T. Washington High, 1111 Park Ave.: grades 9 to 12, 864 students in fall 2025, state score 73.16. Office: 757-628-3575.

Last checked Oct. 20, 2026. Sources: Booker T. Washington High, Norfolk Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory, the VHSL alignment and the division’s 2026-27 boundary maps.

Booker T. Washington High School serves ninth through 12th grade at 1111 Park Ave. for Norfolk Public Schools (NPS). It had 864 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

Who to call
Address 1111 Park Ave., Norfolk, VA 23504
Phone 757-628-3575
Grades 9 to 12
Student hours 7:25 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.
Office hours 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Website btw.npsk12.com
Division Norfolk Public Schools

Principal

Principal Matthew Mason, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 864 students in fall 2025, compared with 905 in fall 2024 and 958 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile.
  • Federal count: 955 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 73 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: 73.16, performance level Needs Intensive Support, in the state’s division summary.
  • On-time graduation: 77%. Of 260 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 199 graduated on time; 35 earned an advanced diploma and 156 a standard diploma, and 46 dropped out.

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

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
Reading 83% 73% 71%
Writing 55% 56% 50%
Math 75% 57% 58%
Science 57% 56% 57%
History and social science 37% 32% 51%

In 2025-26, 82 students took an Advanced Placement test and 40 took dual enrollment classes, the profile shows.

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 middle and high school boundary layers over the city’s 78,561 address points. By address, the Booker T. Washington High zone draws from these middle school zones: Norview Middle (48%), Ruffner School (27%) and Lake Taylor School (26%).

At the elementary level, the largest shares of its addresses fall in the zones of Lake Taylor School (26%), Coleman Place Elementary (18%), Sherwood Forest Elementary (15%), Ingleside Elementary (14%), P.B. Young Sr. Elementary (9%), Jacox Elementary (8%) and Richard Bowling Elementary (6%). Middle and high school zones do not line up exactly, so classmates from one middle school 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 7:25 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. and the office is open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. On a two-hour delay, school starts at 9:25 a.m.

Sports and activities

Booker T. Washington High plays in Class 3, Region A, Eastern District, according to the VHSL alignment. The Eastern District’s other schools are Churchland, Granby, I.C. Norcom, Lake Taylor, Manor, Maury and Norview.

The division’s scheduling site, Arbiter, lists 15 active teams: baseball, boys and girls basketball, boys, girls and coed cross country, field hockey, varsity and junior varsity football, golf, sideline cheerleading, softball, boys and girls volleyball and wrestling. Eighth graders can play on their zoned high school’s junior varsity teams in some sports, the division’s athletics page says.

The division’s specialty programs page lists the Academy of the Arts and S.T.E.M. at Booker T. Washington, open to students from across the city by application. The school’s own academy page lists concentrations in art, dance, theater arts, vocal music and instrumental music (band and orchestra), and asks applicants for a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0, four recommendations and a recent report card. The school’s academics menu also lists an NJROTC program.

Follow the season on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Booker T. Washington High serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. It is part of Norfolk Public Schools and had 864 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

How is Booker T. Washington High rated by the state?

On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 73.16 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 Booker T. Washington High start?

Students attend from 7:25 a.m. to 2:05 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. A two-hour delay moves the start to 9:25 a.m.

What is Booker T. Washington High’s graduation rate?

77%. Of 260 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 199 graduated on time, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.