Lakeview School

As a minimally staffed high school in Durham, North Carolina, Lakeview School enrolls 52 students from grades 6 through 12, operated by Durham Public Schools. That puts it 93% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

Within Durham Public Schools, which oversees 55 schools and 31,797 students, Lakeview School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Lakeview School logs that Black students make up the majority at 62%; the rest breaks down as 17% multiracial, 15% Hispanic, 6% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 2.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Lakeview School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Durham County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,316, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Durham County's 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,109 students), Lakeview School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Voyager Academy, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Lakeview School's enrollment has ticked up 68% since 2018, when it stood at 31 (now 52). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 90% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 1.6:1 in 2018 to 2.8:1 today.

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