Lakeview Elementary School

As a small elementary campus in LAKEVIEW, Michigan, Lakeview Elementary School enrolls 306 students from grades pre-K through 3, operated by Lakeview Community Schools (Montcalm).

Across the 3 schools in Lakeview Community Schools (Montcalm) (1,003 students total), Lakeview Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Lakeview Elementary School logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Montcalm County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at Lakeview Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montcalm County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lakeview Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Michigan schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 37.0%; actual is 62.9%, +25.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montcalm County indicate median household income runs about $67,344, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lakeview Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Montcalm County (combined enrollment of about 11,168 students).

The closest other public school is Lakeview High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lakeview Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.8%.

Lakeview Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 328 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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