Lakeview High School

Lakeview High School is a secondary school of mid-sized scale in Cortland, Ohio, operated by Lakeview Local, caters to 580 students in grades 8 through 12.

Lakeview Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,501 students; Lakeview High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Lakeview High School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lakeview High School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 29% of students at Lakeview High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Trumbull County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lakeview High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.2%.

In the broader community, Trumbull County reports that median household earnings sit near $56,435, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lakeview High School is one of 72 public schools in Trumbull County (combined enrollment of about 25,240 students).

Lakeview Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lakeview High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 75.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Lakeview High School's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 707 (now 580). Class-load math has tightened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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