Atkinson Elementary

Located at 2510 Old Kanuga Road, in Hendersonville, North Carolina, Atkinson Elementary is a close-knit primary school that instructs 288 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Henderson County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Atkinson Elementary sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Henderson County Schools (12,619 students total), Atkinson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Atkinson Elementary lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Henderson County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Henderson County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Atkinson Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Henderson County put the typical household earns roughly $68,187 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Henderson County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,572 students), Atkinson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Hendersonville Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Atkinson Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.0%.

Atkinson Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Atkinson Elementary's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 343 (now 288). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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