LAKEVIEW EL

LAKEVIEW EL is a reasonably sized elementary campus in PORT ARTHUR, Texas, one of the schools within PORT ARTHUR ISD. The school instructs 535 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PORT ARTHUR ISD runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,041 students. LAKEVIEW EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LAKEVIEW EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment; the rest looks like 15% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Native American. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, LAKEVIEW EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 71%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAKEVIEW EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.4%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Around the school, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,026 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), LAKEVIEW EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TEKOA ACADEMY OF ACCELERATED STUDIES, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKEVIEW EL. On composite proficiency, LAKEVIEW EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 777 students in 2018 compared to 535 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.