Lakeland High School, Suffolk, VA

At a glance

School district: Suffolk City Public Schools
Grades served: 9-12
School type: Public high school
Principal: Amber Brown
Established: 1990
Mascot & colors: Cavaliers · Columbia blue, Navy blue, White
Enrollment: 1,045 students (2024-2025)
Student–teacher ratio: 12:1
Classroom teachers: 85.51 FTE
Accreditation: Fully Accredited (2025-2026)
NCES school ID: 510371002219

Academic performance

SOL pass rates · 2024-2025

Reading

78%

Mathematics

84%

Science

78%

History & Social Sci.

59%

86%

On-time graduation (Class of 2025)

Dropout rate

College & career readiness

2024-2025

7.94%

Students in AP courses

4.78%

Dual-enrollment (college credit)

652

Career & technical credentials earned

83 students enrolled in AP; 50 in dual enrollment; 502 students earned at least one CTE credential (652 credentials total).

Attendance

2024-2025

28% of students were chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days).

About Lakeland High School

Lakeland High School opened in September 1990 as a consolidation of four former Suffolk-area high schools: John F. Kennedy, Forest Glen, John Yeates, and Suffolk High School. It began with roughly 1,800 students and grew to nearly 2,600 by 2003 before the 2004 opening of King's Fork High School relieved crowding. The school's teams are known as the Cavaliers, wearing Columbia blue, navy blue, and white.

The school sits at 214 Kenyon Road in Suffolk, Virginia, part of the Suffolk City Public Schools division in the Hampton Roads region. NCES classifies its setting as rural fringe. It serves grades 9-12 and offers Advanced Placement courses and Project Lead The Way programming, including a biomedical sciences pathway.

Contact

Phone: (757) 925-5790

Official school website ↗

Data sources

NCES Common Core of Data - Lakeland High — NCES ID, enrollment total & by grade, grades served, student/teacher ratio, FTE teachers, locale, free/reduced lunch counts2024-2025 link ↗
Virginia School Quality Profiles - Lakeland High — Accreditation, SOL pass rates, graduation & dropout, chronic absenteeism, AP/dual enrollment, CTE credentials, demographics, principal2024-2025 (accreditation SY2025-2026) link ↗
Lakeland High School official website — Phone number, mascot, address, official URL2026 link ↗
Wikipedia - Lakeland High School (Virginia) — Founding year (1990), predecessor schools, mascot, school colors, field hockey state championship (2010)2026 link ↗
Wikimedia Commons - Suffolk Photo 1 — Freely-licensed (CC BY 2.0) photo of Lakeland High School students in a biomedical sciences projectn/a link ↗

Figures reflect the 2024-2025 (NCES CCD & Virginia School Quality Profiles); accreditation SY2025-2026 unless noted. School zoning, boundaries, and ratings change — verify with the school division before making housing decisions.

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