Carr Elementary

Carr Elementary operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Dallas, North Carolina, run under Gaston County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 665 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 467.

Carr Elementary is one of 56 schools operated by Gaston County Schools, a district that serves 30,995 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Carr Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 27% Black, 23% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the resource side, Carr Elementary logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Gaston County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carr Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Gaston County put the typical household earns roughly $67,478 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Gaston County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,898 students), Carr Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gaston Early College of Medical Sciences, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carr Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

Carr Elementary operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Carr Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 705 (now 665). White enrollment moved from 56% to 42% across the same window.

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