Cloverleaf Elementary

Cloverleaf Elementary is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in Statesville, North Carolina, run under Iredell-Statesville Schools, educateing 568 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 22% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Within Iredell-Statesville Schools, which oversees 38 schools and 21,017 students, Cloverleaf Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Cloverleaf Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 24% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Iredell County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Cloverleaf Elementary records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Cloverleaf Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Cloverleaf Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Iredell County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cloverleaf 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 45.5%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Iredell County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,419 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Cloverleaf Elementary is one of 52 public schools in Iredell County (combined enrollment of about 31,906 students).

Northview Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cloverleaf Elementary at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 46.5%.

Cloverleaf Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cloverleaf Elementary has contracted 11%, going from 641 students in 2018 to 568 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 36% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.