Caleb's Creek Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Kernersville, North Carolina, Caleb's Creek Elementary teaches 642 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. That puts it 37% above the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, which oversees 79 schools and 51,745 students, Caleb's Creek Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Caleb's Creek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 26% Black, 22% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

In terms of school funding signals, Caleb's Creek Elementary shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Forsyth County (around 88%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Caleb's Creek Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 58.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Forsyth County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), of which Caleb's Creek Elementary is one.

Southeast Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Caleb's Creek Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.8%.

Caleb's Creek Elementary operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Caleb's Creek Elementary's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 777 (now 642). White enrollment moved from 58% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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