Mountain View Elementary

Mountain View Elementary is one of the heavily attended elementary-level communitys in Charlottesville, Virginia, overseen by Albemarle County Public Schools, with 769 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 54% larger than typical.

Within Albemarle County Public Schools, which oversees 24 schools and 14,149 students, Mountain View Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mountain View Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Albemarle County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mountain View Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.5%; this one delivers 60.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Albemarle County) reports that median household income runs about $104,392, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Mountain View Elementary is one of 26 public schools in Albemarle County (combined enrollment of about 13,438 students).

Monticello High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mountain View Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mountain View Elementary has climbed 16%, going from 663 students in 2018 to 769 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 35% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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