Lake Taylor School, 1380 Kempsville Road: grades K to 8, 663 students in fall 2025, state score 76.93. Office: 757-892-3230.
Last checked Oct. 20, 2026. Sources: Lake Taylor School, Norfolk Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory and the division’s 2026-27 boundary maps.
Lake Taylor School serves kindergarten through eighth grade at 1380 Kempsville Road for Norfolk Public Schools (NPS). It had 663 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows. It is a separate school from Lake Taylor High next door.
Who to call
- Front office: 757-892-3230
- Registering a new student: the school office, or the division’s student registration page
- Which school is my address zoned for? the division’s Find My School map
- Buses: transportation field supervisor Lisa Rhodes, 757-892-3320, ext. 125
- Division main line: 757-628-3830
| Address | 1380 Kempsville Road, Norfolk, VA 23502 |
| Phone | 757-892-3230 |
| Grades | K to 8 |
| Student hours | 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. |
| Office hours | 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
| Website | lts.npsk12.com |
| Division | Norfolk Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Melanie Patterson, according to the school’s website. The site also lists Jeffrey A. Brown Jr. (middle grades) and Brittany Cobbin (elementary grades) as assistant principals.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 663 students in fall 2025, compared with 664 in fall 2024 and 681 in fall 2023, according to the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 681 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 11 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: 76.93, performance level Approaching Expectations, in the state’s division summary.
Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed):
| Subject | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 58% | 55% | 51% |
| Math | 40% | 44% | 45% |
| Science | 42% | 39% | 50% |
| History and social science | 58% | 49% | 44% |
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 pattern: Lake Taylor School serves the same zone from the early grades through eighth grade. We laid the division’s 2026-27 boundary layers over the city’s 78,561 address points.
High school: addresses in the zone are assigned to Booker T. Washington High (73%) and Lake Taylor High (27%). Middle and high school zones do not line up exactly, so classmates can split between high schools.
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 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. and the office is open 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. On a two-hour delay, school starts at 10:15 a.m.
More on Norfolk schools
- The school’s website and its state School Quality Profile
- Every public school in Norfolk
- Our Norfolk schools guide for the full calendar, registration and School Board meetings
- Our neighborhoods guide
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Lake Taylor School serve?
Kindergarten through eighth grade. It is part of Norfolk Public Schools and had 663 students in fall 2025, the state’s count shows.
How is Lake Taylor School rated by the state?
On Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 76.93 and is rated Approaching Expectations, and it is fully accredited for 2025-26, according to the state’s School Quality Profile.
What time does Lake Taylor School start?
Students attend from 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., according to the division’s school hours page. A two-hour delay moves the start to 10:15 a.m.
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