Lakeview Elementary

Located at 401 Taswell Ave, in Colonial Heights, Virginia, Lakeview Elementary is a small primary school that serves 422 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Colonial Heights City Public Schools.

Colonial Heights City Public Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,971 students; Lakeview Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Lakeview Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 25% Black, 23% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Colonial Heights city as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lakeview Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Lakeview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lakeview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 66.9%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Colonial Heights city indicate median household income runs about $76,505, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Colonial Heights city's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,971 students), Lakeview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

North Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lakeview Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lakeview Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 9%: 386 students in 2018 compared to 422 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 4% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.