Bayside High, 4960 Haygood Road: grades 9 to 12, 1,898 students in fall 2025, fully accredited, framework score 90.22. Office: 757-648-5200.

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Bayside High, Virginia Beach City Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and the VHSL alignment.

Bayside High School serves ninth through 12th grade at 4960 Haygood Road for Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS). It had 1,898 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

Who to call
Address 4960 Haygood Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23455
Phone 757-648-5200
Grades 9 to 12
Student hours 7:20 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Office hours 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Website baysidehs.vbschools.com
Division Virginia Beach City Public Schools

Principal

Principal Kenneth D. Vaughan, according to the school’s website. The administration page also lists Ebony Cherry, Raymond Gatlin, Angelica Livingston and Todd Sherman as assistant principals.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 1,898 students in fall 2025, down from 1,988 in fall 2024 and 1,994 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile. Fall 2025 broke down as 492 in ninth grade, 474 in 10th grade, 486 in 11th grade and 446 in 12th grade.
  • Federal count: 1,990 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 120 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 17 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia rates schools two ways. Accreditation checks that a school meets the state’s Standards of Accreditation. The School Performance and Support Framework “considers multiple measures of student success, including academic achievement, growth, readiness, and graduation,” the division’s accreditation and performance page says, and gives each school a score and a performance level.

  • Accreditation: Fully Accredited. All 81 VBCPS schools earned full accreditation for 2026-27, based on 2025-26 data, the division announced Oct. 7.
  • Framework score: 90.22, performance level Meets Expectations, in the state’s division summary.
  • On-time graduation: 99%. Of 510 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 503 graduated on time; 221 earned an advanced diploma and 265 a standard diploma, and 3 dropped out.

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

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
English reading 81% 86% 87%
Writing 69% 73% 72%
Math 87% 87% 88%
Science 77% 85% 76%

In 2025-26, 341 students took an Advanced Placement test, 187 took dual enrollment classes and 5 attended a Governor’s School, 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 School Locator; the school’s own 2026-27 zone map (PDF) shows its boundary. Zones do not follow neighborhood or ZIP code lines, so check the address, not the area.

Feeder schools: on the division’s 2026-27 zone maps, the Bayside High zone overlaps all or part of the zones of Bayside Middle and Independence Middle. Middle school and high school zones do not match exactly, so classmates from one middle school can split between high schools.

Families who want a different school can file an out-of-zone request.

Calendar and bell times

From the division’s 2026-27 calendar (PDF):

  • Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 2-3: no school for students (staff days; Nov. 3 is Election Day)
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, schools closed
  • Wednesday to Friday, Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break
  • March 29 to April 2, 2027: spring break
  • Friday, June 11, 2027: last day for students

Students attend from 7:20 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the office is open 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page, which sets the same hours for all high schools.

Closings and delays are posted on the division’s weather page.

Sports and activities

Bayside High plays in Class 5, Region A, Beach District, according to the VHSL alignment, which lists it as Bayside. The Beach District’s other schools are First Colonial, Kellam, Cox, Green Run, Kempsville, Landstown, Ocean Lakes, Princess Anne, Salem and Tallwood.

The school’s activities list lists teams in baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, cross country, dance, esports, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls soccer, softball, swimming, boys and girls tennis, boys and girls volleyball and wrestling.

The division’s academies page lists the Health Sciences Academy at Bayside (coordinator Kristen Johnson, 757-648-5200). Students from across the city apply through the division’s academy application process.

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

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Bayside High serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. It is part of Virginia Beach City Public Schools.

How is Bayside High rated by the state?

It is fully accredited for 2026-27. On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 90.22 and is rated Meets Expectations, according to the state’s School Quality Profiles.

What time does Bayside High start?

Students attend from 7:20 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page.

What is Bayside High’s graduation rate?

99%. Of 510 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 503 graduated on time, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.