Ocean View Elementary, 350 W. Government Ave.: grades K to 5, 474 students in fall 2025, state score 79.9. Office: 757-531-3105.

Last checked Oct. 20, 2026. Sources: Ocean View Elementary, 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.

Ocean View Elementary School serves kindergarten through fifth grade at 350 W. Government Ave. for Norfolk Public Schools (NPS). It had 474 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

Who to call
Address 350 W. Government Ave., Norfolk, VA 23503
Phone 757-531-3105
Grades K to 5
Student hours 9:30 a.m. to 3:55 p.m.
Office hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Website oves.npsk12.com
Division Norfolk Public Schools

Principal

Principal Jen Murphey, according to the school’s website. The site also lists Vandelyn Hodges as assistant principal.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 474 students in fall 2025, compared with 512 in fall 2024 and 504 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile.
  • Federal count: 504 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 40 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: 79.9, performance level Approaching Expectations, 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 61% 64% 62%
Math 60% 56% 64%
Science 42% 68% 57%
History and social science 28% 65% 49%

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.

Middle and high school: we laid the division’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school boundary layers over the city’s 78,561 address points. All of the Ocean View Elementary zone lies inside the Northside Middle zone.

Its addresses are zoned for Granby High (all) at the high school level. Families on a zone edge should check their own address.

Ocean View took in students from Oceanair Elementary under Phase I of the division’s consolidation plan: Oceanair’s elementary students were redistricted to Ocean View, Bay View and Mary Calcott for 2026-27, the division’s timeline says. The Oceanair building now houses the Oceanair Early Childhood Center for preschool. Our schools guide follows the consolidation plan.

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 9:30 a.m. to 3:55 p.m. and the office is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. On a two-hour delay, school starts at 11:30 a.m.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Ocean View Elementary serve?

Kindergarten through fifth grade. It is part of Norfolk Public Schools and had 474 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

How is Ocean View Elementary rated by the state?

On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 79.9 and is rated Approaching Expectations, and it is fully accredited for 2025-26, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.

What time does Ocean View Elementary start?

Students attend from 9:30 a.m. to 3:55 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. A two-hour delay moves the start to 11:30 a.m.

Which middle and high schools does Ocean View Elementary feed into?

On the division’s 2026-27 boundary maps, its zone falls within the zone of Northside Middle for middle school and Granby High for high school. Check a specific address with Find My School.