Belmont Central Elementary

Belmont Central Elementary operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Belmont, North Carolina, one of the schools within Gaston County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 693 students spanning grades 2 through 5. That puts it 48% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Gaston County Schools runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 30,995 students. Belmont Central Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Belmont Central Elementary logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Belmont Central Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Gaston County's rate of about 85%.

With demographic context factored in, Belmont Central Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Gaston County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,478, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Gaston County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,898 students), Belmont Central Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Stuart W Cramer High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Belmont Central Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Belmont Central Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 63.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 722 students in 2018 compared to 693 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 80% to 71% over that span.

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