Lake Taylor High, 1384 Kempsville Road: grades 9 to 12, 1,111 students in fall 2025, state score 81.15 (Meets Expectations). Office: 757-892-3200.

Last checked Oct. 20, 2026. Sources: Lake Taylor High, Norfolk Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory, the VHSL alignment and the division’s 2026-27 boundary maps.

Lake Taylor High School serves ninth through 12th grade at 1384 Kempsville Road for Norfolk Public Schools (NPS). It had 1,111 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

Who to call
Address 1384 Kempsville Road, Norfolk, VA 23502
Phone 757-892-3200
Grades 9 to 12
Student hours 7:25 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.
Office hours 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Website lths.npsk12.com
Division Norfolk Public Schools

Principal

Principal Brandon Bell, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 1,111 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,112 in fall 2024 and 1,142 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile.
  • Federal count: 1,137 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 16 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia rates schools two ways. Accreditation shows whether a school meets the state’s Standards of Accreditation; a fully accredited school “submitted all required evidence to the Department of Education as prescribed in the Standards of Accreditation,” the profile says. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score and one of four performance levels: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations or Needs Intensive Support.

  • Accreditation: Fully Accredited for 2025-26.
  • Framework score: 81.15, performance level Meets Expectations, in the state’s division summary.
  • On-time graduation: 78%. Of 283 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 222 graduated on time; 52 earned an advanced diploma and 168 a standard diploma, and 46 dropped out.

Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed):

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
Reading 62% 75% 78%
Writing 55% 59% 63%
Math 62% 73% 53%
Science 57% 65% 62%
History and social science 36% 46% 42%

In 2025-26, 90 students took an Advanced Placement test and 23 took dual enrollment classes, the profile shows.

The full profile also reports attendance, student groups, teacher data and spending.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Look up any address in the division’s Find My School map, or see the 2026-27 boundaries in its Redistricting Locator. Zones do not follow neighborhood or ZIP code lines, so check the address, not the area.

Feeder schools: we laid the division’s 2026-27 middle and high school boundary layers over the city’s 78,561 address points. By address, the Lake Taylor High zone draws from these middle school zones: Azalea Gardens Middle (60%), Southside STEM Academy at Campostella (15%), Ruffner School (11%) and Lake Taylor School (9%).

At the elementary level, the largest shares of its addresses fall in the zones of Little Creek Elementary (38%), Southside STEM Academy at Campostella (15%), Larrymore Elementary (11%), Lake Taylor School (9%), Chesterfield Academy (9%) and Tanners Creek Elementary (8%). Middle and high school zones do not line up exactly, so classmates from one middle school can split between high schools.

The consolidation plan calls for renovating Lake Taylor High for career and technical education in Phase IV (2030-34), when the Norfolk Technical Center is listed to close with its students moving to Lake Taylor High, the division’s timeline says. Our schools guide follows the consolidation plan.

Calendar and bell times

From the division’s 2026-27 academic calendar (PDF):

  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: teacher workday, no school for students
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, schools closed
  • Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving holiday, schools closed
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break
  • Monday, Jan. 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, schools closed
  • March 29 to April 2, 2027: spring break
  • Friday, June 4, 2027: last day of school, early release

Students attend from 7:25 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. and the office is open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. On a two-hour delay, school starts at 9:25 a.m. The school’s own website lists student hours of 7 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.

Sports and activities

Lake Taylor High plays in Class 3, Region A, Eastern District, according to the VHSL alignment. The Eastern District’s other schools are Booker T. Washington, Churchland, Granby, I.C. Norcom, Manor, Maury and Norview.

The division’s scheduling site, Arbiter, lists 13 active teams: boys and girls basketball, boys and girls cross country, varsity and junior varsity football, boys and girls golf, softball, boys and girls volleyball and wrestling. Eighth graders can play on their zoned high school’s junior varsity teams in some sports, the division’s athletics page says.

Lake Taylor hosts the Academy of Leadership and Military Science, a citywide program with “cluster scheduling of all core, foreign language, naval science and leadership classes, as well as year round internships with community partners,” the school’s academy page says. Students apply through the division’s specialty programs page.

Follow the season on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Lake Taylor High serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. It is part of Norfolk Public Schools and had 1,111 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.

How is Lake Taylor High rated by the state?

On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 81.15 and is rated Meets Expectations, and it is fully accredited for 2025-26, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.

What time does Lake Taylor High start?

Students attend from 7:25 a.m. to 2:05 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. A two-hour delay moves the start to 9:25 a.m.

What is Lake Taylor High’s graduation rate?

78%. Of 283 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 222 graduated on time, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.