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What do you wish you knew before starting at Lakeside Elementary?
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Enrollment
397
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENRICO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510189000815
Lakeside Elementary
6700 Cedar Croft St, Richmond, VA 23228 · (804) 261-5050 · Henrico County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL397 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
357 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 4 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 37% larger than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
55.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -4.0pp since 2022
Math
53.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 7 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 54.0% |
| 2022-23 | 59.0% | 60.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.6%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lakeside Elementary
Lakeside Elementary's state test result (60.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside Elementary this school | 397 | 89.9% | 60.8% |
| Southside Elementary Dinwiddie | 446 | 93.3% | 60.5% |
| Samuel P. Langley Elementary Hampton | 429 | 92.3% | 81.4% |
| Lakeview Elementary Colonial Heights | 422 | 95.7% | 66.9% |
| Madison Elementary Ruther Glen | 456 | 82.7% | 66.5% |
| Sheffield Elementary Lynchburg | 443 | 92.8% | 56.3% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lakeside Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Henrico County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #817 of 1,101 | #26 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #990 of 1,111 ▼ 61 | #31 of 45 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #936 of 1,111 ▼ 39 | #30 of 45 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 397 | #827 of 1,176 | #37 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #393 of 1,105 | #8 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #167 of 1,106 | #10 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.9% | #331 of 1,157 | #7 of 46 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.9% | #138 of 759 | #2 of 26 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
397
-46 (-10%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 403
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 397 | 30 | 13.2:1 | 90% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 414 | 31 | 13.3:1 | 92% (379) |
| 2022-23 | 438 | 32 | 13.7:1 | 90% (394) |
| 2020-21 | 443 | 31 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 508 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 71% (359) |
| 2015-16 | 504 | 27 | 18.7:1 | 68% (344) |
| 2010-11 | 425 | 28 | 15.2:1 | 65% (275) |
| 2000-01 | 367 | 24 | 15.3:1 | 25% (90) |
| 1990-91 | 403 | 26 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lakeside Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (508 to 397); teachers down 3% (31 to 30).
About Lakeside Elementary
Lakeside Elementary is a small elementary school with an address in Richmond, Virginia. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 397 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Virginia average about 499 students.
Henrico County Public Schools has a total of 69 schools and 51,044 students, Lakeside Elementary among them.
Enrollment at Lakeside Elementary is mixed, with Black students the largest group at 35%. Other reported shares: 32% White, 25% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Lakeside Elementary has a diversity index of 71%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers at Lakeside Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 13.2:1. Elementary schools in Virginia have a similar average ratio of 13.8:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 90%. It compares with 67% for public schools in Henrico County.
Lakeside Elementary is 2.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (60.8% versus 63.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Virginia.
In the county around the school, Henrico County, median household income is about $88,783, about 47% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. A total of 84 public schools operate in Henrico County, serving about 51,753 students.
The next-closest public school is Elizabeth Holladay Elementary, about 0.8 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lakeside Elementary. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Lakeside Elementary is 4th of 8 on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Lakeside Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 10%, from 443 to 397. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.3:1 in 2020-21, and 13.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Henrico County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
335,744
Census ACS
Median income
$88,783
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,753 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Henrico County Public Schools
- John Randolph Tucker HighHigh · 2,132 students
- Deep Run HighHigh · 1,992 students
- Glen Allen HighHigh · 1,939 students
- Highland Springs HighHigh · 1,928 students
- Douglas S. Freeman HighHigh · 1,881 students
- Hermitage HighHigh · 1,719 students
Other schools in Richmond
- John Randolph Tucker HighHigh · 2,132 students
- Douglas S. Freeman HighHigh · 1,881 students
- Hermitage HighHigh · 1,719 students
- Mills E. Godwin HighHigh · 1,702 students
- Monacan HighHigh · 1,644 students
- Huguenot HighHigh · 1,469 students
Other Lakeside Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Lakeside Elementary. Lakeside Elementary is the 8th largest of the 16.
- LAKESIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLORANGE PARK, FL · 726 students
- Lakeside Elementary SchoolIndianapolis, IN · 527 students
- LAKESIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPEMBROKE PINES, FL · 500 students
- Lakeside Elementary SchoolHonesdale, PA · 419 students
- Lakeside Elementary SchoolCOPPELL, TX · 410 students
Nearby schools
- Elizabeth Holladay Elementary0.8 mi · 859
- George H. Moody Middle0.9 mi · 1,086
- Charles M. Johnson Elementary1.6 mi · 423
- Maude Trevvett Elementary1.9 mi · 578
- Brookland Middle2.0 mi · 1,034
- Richmond Virtual Academy2.1 mi · 136
Frequently asked questions
About Lakeside ElementaryHow many students attend Lakeside Elementary?
Lakeside Elementary enrolls approximately 397 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lakeside Elementary serve?
Lakeside Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lakeside Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lakeside Elementary is approximately 13.2:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Lakeside Elementary?
Student demographics at Lakeside Elementary are roughly 32% White, 25% Hispanic, 35% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Lakeside Elementary in?
Lakeside Elementary is part of Henrico County Public Schools.
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