-39%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing fell 38% between 2021 and 2024 (50.0% → 30.8%).
Virginia · Public · Predominantly certificates
Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing
Virginia Beach, Virginia. 41 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+16%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing rose 16% between 2021 and 2024 (25 → 29).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Virginia
Each tile compares this institution to the Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Virginia median $44,813—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry11.1%
Virginia median 50.7%—
At program completion41-71% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS66.7%-58% · '07→'24
first-time, full-time—+271% · '01→'13
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
-58%
Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing · retention fell
73.7% → 30.8%
-36%
Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing · undergrad enrollment fell
100 → 29
+89%
Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing · pell share rose
13.5% → 25.4%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing graduates earn $X” — not “Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Virginia Beach City Public Schools School of Practical Nursing caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.