Norview High, 6501 Chesapeake Blvd.: grades 9 to 12, 1,494 students in fall 2025, state score 78.6 (Approaching Expectations). Office: 757-852-4500.

Last checked Oct. 20, 2026. Sources: Norview 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.

Norview High School serves ninth through 12th grade at 6501 Chesapeake Blvd. for Norfolk Public Schools (NPS). It had 1,494 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

Who to call
Address 6501 Chesapeake Blvd., Norfolk, VA 23513
Phone 757-852-4500
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 nhs.npsk12.com
Division Norfolk Public Schools

Principal

Principal Tori Jacobs-Sumbry, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 1,494 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,593 in fall 2024 and 1,826 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile.
  • Federal count: 1,821 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 118 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 15 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: 78.6, performance level Approaching Expectations, in the state’s division summary.
  • On-time graduation: 83%. Of 407 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 338 graduated on time; 91 earned an advanced diploma and 245 a standard diploma, and 54 dropped out.

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

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
Reading 79% 72% 69%
Writing 75% 65% 62%
Math 70% 72% 65%
Science 61% 65% 62%
History and social science 35% 38% 32%

In 2025-26, 260 students took an Advanced Placement test and 56 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 Norview High zone draws from these middle school zones: Norview Middle (55%), Azalea Gardens Middle (33%), Northside Middle (6%) and Ruffner School (5%).

At the elementary level, the largest shares of its addresses fall in the zones of Bay View Elementary (29%), Crossroads School (16%), Tanners Creek Elementary (16%), Sherwood Forest Elementary (14%), Larrymore Elementary (8%), Willard Elementary (8%) and Richard Bowling Elementary (5%). 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

Norview High plays in Class 5, Region B, Eastern District, according to the VHSL alignment. The Eastern District’s other schools are Booker T. Washington, Churchland, Granby, I.C. Norcom, Lake Taylor, Manor and Maury.

The division’s scheduling site, Arbiter, lists 17 active teams: boys and girls basketball (varsity and junior varsity), field hockey, varsity and junior varsity football, boys, girls and coed golf, boys and girls soccer, softball, girls swimming, 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.

Norview hosts the Leadership Center for the Sciences and Engineering (LCSE), which “challenges students with advanced math, science, and AP courses while building strong leadership skills,” the division’s specialty programs page says. Students from across the city apply.

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

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Norview High serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. It is part of Norfolk Public Schools and had 1,494 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

How is Norview High rated by the state?

On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 78.6 and is rated Approaching Expectations, and it is fully accredited for 2025-26, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.

What time does Norview 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 Norview High’s graduation rate?

83%. Of 407 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 338 graduated on time, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.