Lakeview Academy

Lakeview Academy is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Milledgeville, Georgia, operated by Baldwin County, with 575 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.

Baldwin County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,510 students; Lakeview Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lakeview Academy logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 22% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at Lakeview Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lakeview Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 30.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Baldwin County) logs that median household income runs about $54,403, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Baldwin County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,520 students), of which Lakeview Academy is one.

Oak Hill MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Lakeview Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lakeview Academy at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 783 students in 2018 compared to 575 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 26% to 22%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Lakeview Academy typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.