Black Mountain Primary

Black Mountain Primary is a primary school of low-enrollment scale in Black Mountain, North Carolina, run under Buncombe County Schools, enrolling 351 students in grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 25% smaller than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Across the 45 schools in Buncombe County Schools (22,452 students total), Black Mountain Primary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Black Mountain Primary shows that White students make up the majority at 78%; the rest breaks down as 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Black Mountain Primary records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Black Mountain Primary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Buncombe County (around 88%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Black Mountain Primary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Buncombe County shows median household earnings sit near $74,436, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Buncombe County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,908 students), of which Black Mountain Primary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Black Mountain Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Black Mountain Primary. On composite proficiency, Black Mountain Primary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Black Mountain Primary's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 394 (now 351). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 7% to 13%.

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