Cherryville Elementary

Cherryville Elementary is one of the tight-knit elementary campuss in Cherryville, North Carolina, run under Gaston County Schools, with 378 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3.

Across the 56 schools in Gaston County Schools (30,995 students total), Cherryville Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cherryville Elementary lists that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Cherryville Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Cherryville Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cherryville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +5.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Gaston County indicate median household income runs about $67,478, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Gaston County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,898 students), Cherryville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: W B Beam Intermediate School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Cherryville Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cherryville Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 50.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 444 students in 2018 compared to 378 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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