Highview Elementary School

Highview Elementary School is a K–5 school in Lakeville Area Schools serving 658 students in Lakeville, Minnesota, and it ranks 110th of 869 Minnesota elementary schools — the 87th percentile, or 4 stars — sitting slightly above its own district's standing. Among the eight Lakeville elementaries, it places fourth, behind Lakeview Elementary, Cherry View Elementary, and Lake Marion Elementary, and ahead of Oak Hills Elementary, Eastview Elementary, Kennedy Elementary, and Huddleston Elementary.

Test scores clear both district and state benchmarks in every subject: 71.7% in math (13 points above the district, 26.8 above the state), 64.0% in reading, and 35.8% in science. Math and science are the strengths — Highview's math result is statistically level with Lakeview Elementary (72.3%) and Cherry View Elementary (72.0%), and its science score ties Lake Marion Elementary for second-best nearby. Reading is the softer spot, trailing Lakeview by 7.7 points. Context matters here: Highview enrolls the lowest share of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch in its comparison group (11.55%), and does it with the group's highest student–teacher ratio, 18.3:1 — roughly three to four more students per teacher than Lakeview or Cherry View.

Highview was the only school in its comparison set to gain in all three subjects year over year — math +7.2 points, science +5.7, reading +2.7 — while its district slipped in two subjects and the state declined in all three. Grade 5 is its strongest band, posting 75% reading proficiency and a 10-point math edge over the district. Grade 3 is the watch point, trailing the district in both math and reading, with grade-3 reading 5 points behind. Science, though 10.3 points above the state, remains the lowest subject and, like Oak Hills Elementary's one-year science drop, can swing with small fifth-grade cohorts.