Peak View Elementary

Located at 641 Lawyer Rd., in Penn Laird, Virginia, Peak View Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that teaches 538 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Rockingham County Public Schools.

Within Rockingham County Public Schools, which oversees 23 schools and 11,679 students, Peak View Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Peak View Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder is composed of 31% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 45% of students at Peak View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Rockingham County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Peak View Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Rockingham County indicate median household income runs about $80,693, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Rockingham County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,397 students), Peak View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Montevideo Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Peak View Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Peak View Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 57.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Peak View Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 16% since 2018, when it stood at 464 (now 538). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 63% to 58%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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