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If you could change one rule at Bethel Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
537
Elementary
DISTRICT 381 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAYWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370204000579
Bethel Elementary
4700 Old River Road, Canton, NC 28716 · (828) 646-3448 · Haywood County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL537 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
530 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
60.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
76.0%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.7%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in North Carolina's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
537
+14 (+3%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 15.4:1
% White
89%
was 88%
% Hispanic
7%
was 10%
% Black
0%
was 0%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Bethel Elementary
Bethel Elementary, an average-sized elementary school in Canton, North Carolina, overseen by Haywood County Schools, educates 537 students, covering grades K through 5.
Haywood County Schools comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 6,476 students; Bethel Elementary is among them.
On the student-mix side, Bethel Elementary lists that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, On paper, Bethel Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Bethel Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bethel Elementary ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.7%; Bethel Elementary posts 71.3%, +22.6 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Haywood County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,912 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Haywood County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,092 students), of which Bethel Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Bethel Middle, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bethel Elementary. On composite proficiency, Bethel Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bethel Elementary has climbed 3%, going from 523 students in 2018 to 537 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.
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Haywood County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
62,662
Census ACS
Median income
$61,912
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
7,092 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Haywood County Schools
- Tuscola HighHigh · 873 students
- Pisgah HighHigh · 859 students
- Waynesville MiddleMiddle · 727 students
- Clyde ElementaryElementary · 523 students
- Hazelwood ElementaryElementary · 490 students
- Canton MiddleMiddle · 475 students
Other schools in Canton
- Pisgah HighHigh · 859 students
- Canton MiddleMiddle · 475 students
- North Canton ElementaryElementary · 332 students
- Meadowbrook ElementaryElementary · 198 students
Nearby schools
- Bethel Middle1.0 mi · 254
- Clyde Elementary3.3 mi · 523
- Pisgah High3.6 mi · 859
- Haywood Early College3.6 mi · 177
- Canton Middle3.8 mi · 475
- Meadowbrook Elementary4.0 mi · 198
Frequently asked questions
About Bethel ElementaryHow many students attend Bethel Elementary?
Bethel Elementary enrolls approximately 537 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Bethel Elementary serve?
Bethel Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Bethel Elementary have?
Bethel Elementary employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Bethel Elementary?
Student demographics at Bethel Elementary are roughly 89% White, 7% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Bethel Elementary in?
Bethel Elementary is part of Haywood County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.