Enrollment
228
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINSTON SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370150002448
Cook Literacy Model School
920 11th Street NW, Winston-Salem, NC 27105 · (336) 703-4201 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL228 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.5:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
225 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 82%
Community
0
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 | 12 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
41%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
30.1%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
49.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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
43.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.7%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Cook Literacy Model School
Cook Literacy Model School's state test result (43.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Literacy Model School this school | 228 | 98.7% | 43.1% |
| R Freeman Sch of Engineering Wilmington | 241 | 98.8% | 15.5% |
| Morven Elementary Morven | 197 | 98.5% | 30.3% |
| Princeville Elementary Tarboro | 205 | 97.1% | 37.7% |
| Pinkston Street Elementary Henderson | 262 | 98.9% | 36.4% |
| B O Barnes Elementary Wilson | 274 | 98.9% | 46.8% |
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 Cook Literacy Model School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #1,021 of 1,297 | #29 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #928 of 1,296 | #29 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #1,190 of 1,300 | #33 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 228 | #1,331 of 1,485 | #45 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #54 of 1,377 | #6 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.3% | #1,157 of 1,379 | #43 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.7% | #786 of 1,414 | #38 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.2% | #300 of 369 | #8 of 12 |
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
228
-36 (-14%) vs 2020
-17% since 2000-01, when it was 276
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 228 | 19.9 | 11.5:1 | 99% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 247 | 19.5 | 12.7:1 | 99% (244) |
| 2022-23 | 280 | 22.7 | 12.3:1 | 99% (277) |
| 2020-21 | 264 | 18 | 14.7:1 | 99% (261) |
| 2017-18 | 221 | 18.3 | 12.1:1 | 99% (218) |
| 2015-16 | 269 | 26 | 10.3:1 | 99% (266) |
| 2010-11 | 242 | 21 | 11.5:1 | 99% (239) |
| 2000-01 | 276 | 14 | 19.7:1 | 80% (222) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cook Literacy Model School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (221 to 228); teachers up 9% (18.3 to 19.9).
About Cook Literacy Model School
Cook Literacy Model School is an elementary school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reachable at (336) 703-4201. It educates 228 students in pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 51% smaller than the 467 average for elementary schools in North Carolina.
Besides Cook Literacy Model School, Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 78 other schools. The district enrolls 51,745 students.
By race and ethnicity, Cook Literacy Model School is 74% Black. After that, the student body is 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% White. Census figures show Forsyth County is about 25% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Cook Literacy Model School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 41%.
Its 19.9 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 11.5:1. That ratio is under the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 99%. The rate at public schools in Forsyth County averages 88%, lower than here.
allk12 grades Cook Literacy Model School a C-. The grade compares the school only with North Carolina public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Cook Literacy Model School is 5.6 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 43.1% actual, 48.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in North Carolina.
County data help place the school in context: in Forsyth County, median household income is about $67,165, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The public schools of Forsyth County number 88 and enroll about 55,902.
Lowrance Middle is the closest public school, about 0.4 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Cook Literacy Model School places 2nd of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES describes the area around Cook Literacy Model School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 264 to 228. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.5:1, from 14.7:1.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Winston-Salem
- Atkins Academic & Tech HighHigh · 1,187 students
- Clemmons Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,092 students
- Oak Grove HighHigh · 992 students
- Meadowlark MiddleMiddle · 857 students
- Meadowlark ElementaryElementary · 827 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMiddle · 808 students
Nearby schools
- Lowrance Middle0.4 mi · 129
- Paisley Magnet School0.4 mi · 553
- Kimberley Park Elementary0.6 mi · 332
- R J Reynolds High0.6 mi · 1,759
- Virtual Academy0.7 mi · 177
- The Downtown School0.7 mi · 453
Frequently asked questions
About Cook Literacy Model SchoolHow many students attend Cook Literacy Model School?
Cook Literacy Model School enrolls approximately 228 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cook Literacy Model School serve?
Cook Literacy Model School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cook Literacy Model School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cook Literacy Model School is approximately 11.5:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cook Literacy Model School?
At Cook Literacy Model School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 21% Hispanic, 74% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Cook Literacy Model School public or private?
Cook Literacy Model School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.
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