Ivy Elementary
The school east of Crozet on the Owensville Road side of the western pattern — a rural campus, larger lots in its zone, and the shortest drive to UVA of any school in the pattern. The Albemarle County School Board renamed it from Meriwether Lewis Elementary in January 2023.
By Josh Keeton, Town Realty · Updated
Grades K–5 · Students 358 · Address 1610 Owensville Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901 · Phone 434-293-9304
The Ivy Elementary zone in color, with the neighborhoods in it. Click a neighborhood to see it.
Which neighborhoods are in the Ivy Elementary zone?
Ivy Elementary serves the Ivy corridor east of Crozet, not the Crozet subdivisions. If you are shopping Old Trail or Western Ridge, this is not your school — if you are shopping acreage along Route 250 or Owensville Road, it probably is.
Ivy Elementary is a K–5 Albemarle County public school in Ivy, Virginia, serving the rural corridor along Route 250 between Crozet and Charlottesville. It is part of the same western feeder pattern as the two Crozet schools — students continue to Joseph T. Henley Middle School and then Western Albemarle High School.
For a relocating family this is the trade in plain terms: you give up Crozet's sidewalks and village center and get larger lots, a quieter road, and the shortest drive to UVA in the whole pattern. The academic destination is identical. What changes is the daily shape of life and, often, the price per acre.
Where is Ivy Elementary?
Ivy Elementary is at 1610 Owensville Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901. The school's phone number is 434-293-9304.
What grades does Ivy Elementary teach, and is it accredited?
Ivy Elementary teaches grades K–5 and is fully accredited for 2025-26, per the Virginia Department of Education.
Where do Ivy Elementary students go for middle and high school?
Joseph T. Henley Middle School, then Western Albemarle High School. This is the point people miss about the Ivy corridor: buying here does not put your child in a different school system from Crozet. Sixth grade puts them in the same building.
How many students attend Ivy Elementary?
358 students in 2024-25 (fall membership), a student-teacher ratio of 14.73:1.
What are the bell times at Ivy Elementary?
School hours are 7:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., per the school's fact sheet; no separate drop-off window is listed.
That fact sheet was last updated in August 2025, so confirm the current year's times with the office (434-293-9304).
Is there before- and after-school care at Ivy Elementary?
After-school care, yes: the county's After School Enrichment Program (ASEP) runs at every elementary school, Ivy included, from dismissal until 5:45 p.m. on full school days. Before-school care isn't listed in the program's description.
Families choose full-time (4–5 days a week) or part-time (1–3 days). Spots depend on staffing and space, so registration is a lottery with a waitlist, and the program doesn't run on half-days. On student holidays, a separate Student Holiday Program runs 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. at Agnor Elementary, not in Crozet.
Quick answers
What areas are zoned for Ivy Elementary?
Ivy Elementary serves the Ivy corridor east of Crozet, generally along Route 250 and the roads off it. It does not serve the Crozet subdivisions, which are zoned for Brownsville or Crozet Elementary. Because it shares the corridor with Murray Elementary, the exact address matters more here than almost anywhere in the county.
Is Ivy Elementary in Crozet?
No. It is in Ivy, between Crozet and Charlottesville, and it has a Charlottesville mailing address. It sits in the same Western Albemarle feeder pattern as the Crozet schools, which is why families researching Crozet run into it.
What middle and high school does Ivy Elementary feed into?
Joseph T. Henley Middle School for grades 6 through 8, then Western Albemarle High School for grades 9 through 12 — the same as all four elementary schools in the pattern.
What is the difference between Ivy Elementary and Murray Elementary?
Both serve the Ivy corridor and both feed Henley Middle, so the practical difference is the attendance boundary between them and the size of each school — Murray is the smaller of the two. Neither is a tier above the other.
Is the commute to Charlottesville better from Ivy than from Crozet?
Usually, by roughly the difference in mileage — Ivy sits closer to town along Route 250. The offsetting cost is that Ivy has fewer services of its own, so trips that a Crozet family runs in town become trips to Charlottesville.
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