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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Mountain View Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
769
Elementary
DISTRICT 441 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBEMARLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510009002173
Mountain View Elementary
1757 Avon Street Extended, Charlottesville, VA 22902 · (434) 293-7455 · Albemarle County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL769 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
497 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 47 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 125 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 138 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 129 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
63.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
63.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 57.0% |
| 2022-23 | 58.0% | 55.0% |
% 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
60.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.5%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 Mountain View Elementary
Mountain View Elementary's state test result (60.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Elementary this school | 769 | 64.6% | 60.3% |
| Freedom Middle Fredericksburg | 763 | 65.1% | 72.3% |
| Riverview Elementary Spotsylvania | 691 | 66.1% | 73.3% |
| David A. Harrison Elementary Disputanta | 630 | 64.0% | 68.9% |
| Lee Hill Elementary Fredericksburg | 680 | 66.0% | 65.6% |
| Wilderness Elementary Spotsylvania | 647 | 72.3% | 63.3% |
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 Mountain View Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Albemarle County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #828 of 1,101 | #11 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #827 of 1,111 ▲ 49 | #10 of 15 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #782 of 1,111 ▼ 7 | #12 of 15 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 769 | #110 of 1,176 | #1 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #433 of 1,105 | #7 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.2% | #260 of 1,106 | #6 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.6% | #756 of 1,157 | #6 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.0% | #61 of 324 | #3 of 8 |
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
769
+75 (+11%) vs 2020
+49% since 1990-91, when it was 516
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 769 | 57.2 | 13.4:1 | 65% (497) |
| 2023-24 | 756 | 63.9 | 11.8:1 | 65% (489) |
| 2022-23 | 752 | 62.3 | 12.1:1 | 47% (351) |
| 2020-21 | 694 | 62 | 11.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 663 | 60.9 | 10.9:1 | 46% (306) |
| 2015-16 | 703 | 55 | 12.8:1 | 47% (327) |
| 2010-11 | 574 | 39 | 14.7:1 | 41% (233) |
| 2000-01 | 537 | 44 | 12.2:1 | 35% (188) |
| 1990-91 | 516 | 27 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountain View Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (663 to 769); teachers down 6% (60.9 to 57.2).
About Mountain View Elementary
The public elementary school Mountain View Elementary is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The latest federal count shows 769 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Virginia is about 499 students, so this school is 54% bigger than average.
The 24 schools in Albemarle County Public Schools enroll 14,149 students altogether, Mountain View Elementary among them.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Mountain View Elementary. The largest is White students, at 45%. Next come 27% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, and 5% Asian. That compares with about 75% White among all Albemarle County residents. Mountain View Elementary's diversity index is 69%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at Mountain View Elementary total 57.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.4:1. That matches the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia fairly closely. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 65%. The average for public schools in Albemarle County is 37%.
Mountain View Elementary is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 21% of Virginia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Mountain View Elementary scores 60.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 70.5%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Albemarle County, the median household income is $104,392, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 61%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Mountain View Elementary is one of 26 public schools in the county.
Monticello High is located about 0.6 miles from Mountain View Elementary. The five-mile area around Mountain View Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Mountain View Elementary ranks 7th on proficiency.
Federal data place Mountain View Elementary in the Suburb: Mid-size locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment climbed 11% from its 2020-21 level of 694. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.2:1 to 13.4:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Mountain View Elementary. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Albemarle County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
114,919
Census ACS
Median income
$104,392
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
61%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,438 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Albemarle County Public Schools
- Albemarle HighHigh · 1,964 students
- Western Albemarle HighHigh · 1,273 students
- Monticello HighHigh · 1,184 students
- Joseph T. Henley MiddleMiddle · 847 students
- Baker-Butler ElementaryElementary · 692 students
- Journey MiddleMiddle · 646 students
Other schools in Charlottesville
- Albemarle HighHigh · 1,964 students
- Charlottesville HighHigh · 1,438 students
- Monticello HighHigh · 1,184 students
- Baker-Butler ElementaryElementary · 692 students
- Journey MiddleMiddle · 646 students
- Lakeside MiddleMiddle · 574 students
Other Mountain View Elementary schools
56 other US public schools in 23 states are named Mountain View Elementary. Mountain View Elementary is the 6th largest of the 57.
- Mountain View ElementaryPurcellville, VA · 649 students
- Mountain View ElementaryHaymarket, VA · 418 students
- Mountain View ElementaryCovington, VA · 415 students
- Mountain View ElementaryHarrisonburg, VA · 411 students
- Mountain View ElementaryRoanoke, VA · 377 students
Nearby schools
- Monticello High0.6 mi · 1,184
- Jackson-Via Elementary1.3 mi · 370
- Johnson Elementary1.8 mi · 327
- Buford Middle2.1 mi · 563
- Summit Elementary2.3 mi · 285
- Trailblazer Elementary2.9 mi · 320
Frequently asked questions
About Mountain View ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Mountain View Elementary?
Mountain View Elementary enrolls approximately 769 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Mountain View Elementary serve?
Mountain View Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mountain View Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mountain View Elementary is approximately 13.4:1 (57 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Mountain View Elementary?
Mountain View Elementary reports a student body of 45% White, 27% Hispanic, 15% Black, 5% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Mountain View Elementary?
Mountain View Elementary is overseen by Albemarle County Public Schools in Albemarle County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.