LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY

Set in LAKEVILLE, Minnesota, LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY is a large primary school, run under Lakeville Area Schools. It teaches 588 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY sits 71% larger than that benchmark.

Lakeville Area Schools comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 12,025 students; LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY is among them.

In terms of who attends, LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dakota County) reports that median household income runs about $106,318, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LAKE MARION ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 52.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 596 students in 2018 compared to 588 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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