Willard Elementary, 1511 Willow Wood Drive: grades pre-K to 5, 460 students in fall 2025, state score 86.2. Office: 757-628-2721.

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

Willard Elementary School serves pre-K through fifth grade at 1511 Willow Wood Drive for Norfolk Public Schools (NPS). It had 460 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

Who to call
Address 1511 Willow Wood Drive, Norfolk, VA 23509
Phone 757-628-2721
Grades Pre-K to 5
Student hours 8:55 a.m. to 3:20 p.m.
Office hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Website wes.npsk12.com
Division Norfolk Public Schools

Principal

Principal Karen Pernell, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 460 students in fall 2025, compared with 441 in fall 2024 and 449 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: 449 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 10 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: 86.2, 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 66% 69% 66%
Math 68% 71% 62%
Science 66% 60% 63%
History and social science 73% 65% 67%

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 Willard Elementary zone lies inside the Norview Middle zone.

Its addresses are zoned for Maury High (72%) and Norview High (28%) at the high school level. Families on a zone edge should check their own address.

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 8:55 a.m. to 3:20 p.m. and the office is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. On a two-hour delay, school starts at 10:55 a.m.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Willard Elementary serve?

Pre-K through fifth grade. It is part of Norfolk Public Schools and had 460 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

How is Willard Elementary rated by the state?

On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 86.2 and is rated Approaching Expectations, and it is fully accredited for 2025-26, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.

What time does Willard Elementary start?

Students attend from 8:55 a.m. to 3:20 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. A two-hour delay moves the start to 10:55 a.m.

Which middle and high schools does Willard Elementary feed into?

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