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Middle · Regular · Grades 7 to 8

Cradock Middle, Portsmouth, VA

CEP schoolCradock Middle is a public middle school in Portsmouth, part of Portsmouth City Public Schools. It enrolled 516 students in 2024-25, with 13.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
516
Teachers (FTE)
38.0
Students per teacher
13.6
Grades
7 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 13.7. The Virginia average across schools is 14.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.6
District13.7
Virginia14.0
United States15.3

School details

Address
21 Alden Ave, Portsmouth, VA 23702
Phone
(757)393-8788
District
Portsmouth City Public Schools
County
Portsmouth city
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
510300001234
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
534
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
534
Direct certification
513Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Portsmouth City Public Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.