Lake View Elementary

Lake View Elementary is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Madison, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Madison Metropolitan School District, caters to 292 students in grades K through 5.

Madison Metropolitan School District runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 25,155 students. Lake View Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lake View Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Asian (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 18% Black, 10% multiracial, 9% White. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 6%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lake View Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at Lake View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dane County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lake View Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.4%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dane County put median household earnings sit near $89,975, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lake View Elementary is one of 169 public schools in Dane County (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students).

The closest other public school is Gompers Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lake View Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lake View Elementary's enrollment has grew 12% since 2018, when it stood at 261 (now 292). The White share of enrollment contracted from 31% to 9% over that span.

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