Charles England Elementary School

Charles England Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary campuss in Lexington, North Carolina, one of the schools within Lexington City Schools, with 381 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5.

Lexington City Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,953 students. Charles England Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Charles England Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Black (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 34% Hispanic, 14% White, 11% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Davidson County's rate of about 76%.

With demographic context factored in, Charles England Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.6%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Davidson County put the typical household earns roughly $64,172 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Davidson County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,696 students), of which Charles England Elementary School is one.

Lexington Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Charles England Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Charles England Elementary School at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

Charles England Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 429 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 28% to 40% across the same window.

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