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How has Cash Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
520
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINSTON SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370150000593
Cash Elementary
4700 Old Hollow Road, Kernersville, NC 27284 · (336) 703-4174 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL520 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
517 students
DISTRICT 90% · 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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 9 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). 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
61.9%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
63.5%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cash Elementary
Cash Elementary's state test result (64.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash Elementary this school | 520 | 99.4% | 64.2% |
| Fremont STARS Elementary Fremont | 535 | 99.4% | 51.3% |
| Castle Hayne Elementary Castle Hayne | 531 | 99.4% | 65.6% |
| Northeast Elementary Pikeville | 497 | 99.4% | 55.8% |
| G R Whitfield Grimesland | 560 | 99.5% | 67.8% |
| Northwest Elementary Pikeville | 559 | 98.0% | 65.1% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cash Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.2% | #371 of 1,297 | #14 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #517 of 1,296 | #15 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #278 of 1,300 | #12 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 520 | #560 of 1,485 | #26 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #256 of 1,377 | #18 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #438 of 1,379 | #16 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #255 of 1,414 | #22 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.9% | #170 of 937 | #9 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
520
-78 (-13%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 685
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 520 | 39.5 | 13.2:1 | 99% (517) |
| 2023-24 | 532 | 37.5 | 14.2:1 | 99% (529) |
| 2022-23 | 538 | 40.5 | 13.3:1 | 59% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 598 | 39 | 15.3:1 | 36% (217) |
| 2017-18 | 692 | 45.1 | 15.3:1 | 41% (285) |
| 2015-16 | 666 | 39 | 17.1:1 | 40% (267) |
| 2010-11 | 796 | 51 | 15.6:1 | 34% (273) |
| 2000-01 | 613 | 54 | 11.3:1 | 19% (117) |
| 1990-91 | 685 | 48 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cash Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (692 to 520); teachers down 12% (45.1 to 39.5).
About Cash Elementary
Cash Elementary is one of the public schools in Kernersville, North Carolina. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 520 students.
Cash Elementary is one school in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, a system of 79 schools with 51,745 students.
At 51%, White students outnumber all other groups at Cash Elementary combined. Other students are 19% Hispanic, 18% Black, and 11% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Cash Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 66%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.2:1, with 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in North Carolina is 14.9:1, higher than at this school. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 99% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Forsyth County average 88%.
The allk12 Grade for Cash Elementary is A-. Compared with North Carolina public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 79% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in North Carolina with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 48.5%. Cash Elementary scores 64.2%.
Forsyth County has these Census figures: median household income is about $67,165, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Cash Elementary is among the 88 public schools in Forsyth County.
Nearest public school: East Forsyth Middle School, about 0.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 47.0%; Cash Elementary's is 64.2%, ranking 2nd of 8.
The federal government classifies Cash Elementary's location as Suburb: Large.
The student count in 2024-25 was 520, 13% below the 598 of 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 13.2 students per teacher, compared with 15.3 in 2020-21.
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Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
389,977
Census ACS
Median income
$67,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
55,902 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- West Forsyth HighHigh · 2,145 students
- Ronald W Reagan High SchoolHigh · 2,122 students
- R J Reynolds HighHigh · 1,759 students
- East Forsyth HighHigh · 1,647 students
- Parkland HighHigh · 1,569 students
- Mount Tabor High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
Other schools in Kernersville
- East Forsyth HighHigh · 1,647 students
- Robert B Glenn High SchoolHigh · 1,396 students
- NC Leadership Charter AcademyCombined · 1,209 students
- East Forsyth Middle SchoolMiddle · 772 students
- Kernersville MiddleMiddle · 754 students
- Southeast MiddleMiddle · 733 students
Other Cash Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Cash Elementary. Cash Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Cash Elementary SchoolSAN BENITO, TX · 611 students
Nearby schools
- East Forsyth Middle School0.4 mi · 772
- East Forsyth High2.1 mi · 1,647
- Kernersville Elementary2.5 mi · 568
- Appalachian Academy at Middle Fork2.6 mi · 295
- Kernersville Middle2.8 mi · 754
- Walkertown Elementary2.9 mi · 633
Frequently asked questions
About Cash ElementaryHow many students attend Cash Elementary?
Cash Elementary enrolls approximately 520 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cash Elementary serve?
Cash Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cash Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cash Elementary is approximately 13.2:1 (40 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Cash Elementary?
Cash Elementary reports a student body of 51% White, 19% Hispanic, 18% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Cash Elementary in?
Cash Elementary is part of Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.