Balfour Elementary

Set in Asheboro, North Carolina, Balfour Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, overseen by Asheboro City Schools. It hosts 558 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Balfour Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Asheboro City Schools, a district that instructs 4,405 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Balfour Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%; the rest looks like 22% White, 11% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Randolph County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Balfour Elementary has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Randolph County's rate of about 84%.

With demographic context factored in, Balfour Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Randolph County indicate median household income runs about $61,022, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Randolph County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,656 students), of which Balfour Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Asheboro Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Balfour Elementary. On composite proficiency, Balfour Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Balfour Elementary's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 534 (now 558). The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 68% to 59% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.