Summit Elementary, formerly Clark, 1000 Belmont Ave.: grades K-5, 290 students in fall 2025, rated Meets Expectations. Office: 434-245-2414.

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Summit Elementary School, Charlottesville City Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile and the federal NCES school directory.

Summit Elementary School, formerly Clark Elementary, is a Charlottesville City Schools neighborhood elementary school for kindergarten through fifth grade on Belmont Avenue. It is one of six city elementary schools, each with its own attendance zone, and its zone is the one most affected by the division’s rezoning plan.

Who to call

  • Front office: 434-245-2414, summit@charlottesvilleschools.org
  • Registrar (new students): Aisha Anderson, 434-245-2414
  • Division office: 434-245-2400, 1562 Dairy Road
  • Director of Student Services (enrollment questions): 434-245-2405
  • Buses: the city’s Pupil Transportation Department runs school buses; walk zone questions go to 434-245-2400
Address 1000 Belmont Ave., Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone 434-245-2414
Grades Kindergarten to 5
School day 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Website summit.charlottesvilleschools.org
Division Charlottesville City Schools

Principal

Principal Carmella Johnson, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 290 students in fall 2025, compared with 285 in 2024 and 308 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile. The fall 2025 count covers preschool through fourth grade; the school now serves kindergarten through fifth grade.
  • Federal count: 308 students (then Clark Elementary) in the 2023-24 school year, with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 12 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia rates schools two ways. Accreditation checks that a school has the programs, staff and facilities the state requires. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score with a target of 80 points; points are “assigned based on items ranging from test scores to attendance,” and the measures differ by school level, the division explained when the results came out Oct. 7.

  • Accreditation, 2025-26: Fully Accredited
  • Framework score: 83.35, rated Meets Expectations, in the division summary. Summit is the only city school rated Meets Expectations; Sunrise is rated Distinguished and the other six Approaching Expectations.

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

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
English reading 51% 62% 65%
Math 49% 65% 68%

The full profile also reports attendance and teacher data.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Find the elementary school for any city address with the city’s GIS viewer: enter the street, click the property and look under “Additional Data,” as the division’s attendance zones page explains. After elementary school, all city students attend Charlottesville Middle School (grades 6-8) and Charlottesville High School (grades 9-12).

Rezoning: the division’s rezoning plan moves students out of the Summit zone in two steps. In August 2027, Summit students who live west of Kindlewood shift to Sunrise. In August 2029 at the earliest, students living at Kindlewood move to Sunrise. The division says housing planned in the Summit zone would crowd the school, which cannot expand or add modular classrooms on its site. The plan says Summit students in first grade and up when it was drawn up finish at Summit before the 2029 change, that year’s kindergartners have a priority exemption to stay, and buses will run to Sunrise. A few parcels where no students lived were rezoned right away. Check an address on the rezoning map.

City residents can ask to attend a school outside their zone for child care reasons, a move during the school year or a rezoning, under School Board Policy JC; the annual out-of-zone application is on the zones page. Our neighborhoods guide shows which elementary zone each part of the city is in.

Calendar and bell times

From the division’s 2026-27 calendar:

  • Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 2-3: no school for students (staff days; Nov. 3 is Election Day)
  • Thursday, Nov. 26: Thanksgiving; the full break is marked on the calendar PDF
  • Friday, Dec. 18: second grading period ends
  • Friday, May 28, 2027: last day of school, with an early dismissal

Elementary schools run 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with doors open at 7:40 a.m. and early dismissal at noon, according to the division’s daily routines page.

School life

The school’s website lists family literacy night, the annual Buzz by Belmont 5K, spirit days and an end-of-year field day, plus monthly school-wide morning meetings hosted by a different grade each month. The PTO and volunteers work with the school, and families can sign up for a guided tour.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Summit Elementary School serve?

Kindergarten through fifth grade. Summit is one of six neighborhood elementary schools in Charlottesville City Schools, at 1000 Belmont Ave.

How is Summit Elementary School rated by the state?

It is fully accredited. In the Virginia School Performance and Support Framework results announced Oct. 7, it scored 83.35 and is rated Meets Expectations.

Which middle school does Summit Elementary School feed into?

Charlottesville Middle School, then Charlottesville High School. All city elementary schools feed the same middle and high school.

What time does Summit Elementary School start?

City elementary schools run from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with doors open at 7:40 a.m. Early dismissal is at noon.