Coddle Creek Elementary

Coddle Creek Elementary is a sprawling K-5 school in Mooresville, North Carolina, part of Iredell-Statesville Schools. The school teaches 808 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Coddle Creek Elementary sits 73% bigger than that benchmark.

Iredell-Statesville Schools runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 21,017 students. Coddle Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Coddle Creek Elementary records that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 9% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Coddle Creek Elementary logs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Coddle Creek Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Iredell County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coddle Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.0%, the actual is 64.9%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Iredell County shows median household income runs about $81,419, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Iredell County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,906 students), of which Coddle Creek Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Pine Lake Preparatory, roughly 2.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coddle Creek Elementary at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 72.5%.

Coddle Creek Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 36%: 595 students in 2018 compared to 808 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 75% to 52%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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