Southside STEM Academy, 1106 Campostella Road: grades pre-K to 8, 742 students in fall 2025, state score 76.31. Office: 757-494-3850.
Last checked Oct. 20, 2026. Sources: Southside STEM Academy, 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.
Southside STEM Academy at Campostella serves pre-K through eighth grade at 1106 Campostella Road for Norfolk Public Schools (NPS). It had 742 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.
Who to call
- Front office: 757-494-3850
- Registering a new student: the school office, or the division’s student registration page
- Which school is my address zoned for? the division’s Find My School map
- Buses: transportation field supervisor Larry A. Butler Sr., 757-892-3320, ext. 121
- Division main line: 757-628-3830
| Address | 1106 Campostella Road, Norfolk, VA 23523 |
| Phone | 757-494-3850 |
| Grades | Pre-K 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 | ssac.npsk12.com |
| Division | Norfolk Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Julia James, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 742 students in fall 2025, compared with 686 in fall 2024 and 701 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile. The state’s count starts at kindergarten, so pre-K students are not included.
- Federal count: 701 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 12 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: 76.31, 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 | 45% | 50% | 52% |
| Math | 36% | 49% | 41% |
| Science | 29% | 39% | 47% |
| History and social science | 42% | 46% | 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.
Feeder pattern: Southside STEM Academy serves the same zone from the early grades through eighth grade. We laid the division’s 2026-27 boundary layers over the city’s 78,561 address points.
High school: addresses in the zone are assigned to Lake Taylor High (all). 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
Southside STEM Academy is also one of the division’s specialty programs: students “explore science, technology, engineering, and math through exciting, hands-on learning” with Project Lead the Way, the division says. It serves its own neighborhood zone and takes students from elsewhere in the city by application.
More on Norfolk schools
- The school’s website and its state School Quality Profile
- Every public school in Norfolk
- Our Norfolk schools guide for the full calendar, registration and School Board meetings
- Our neighborhoods guide
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Southside STEM Academy serve?
Pre-K through eighth grade. It is part of Norfolk Public Schools and had 742 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.
How is Southside STEM Academy rated by the state?
On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 76.31 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 Southside STEM Academy 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.
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