Courtney Elementary

Courtney Elementary operates as a cozy elementary school in Yadkinville, North Carolina, part of Yadkin County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 250 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Courtney Elementary sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

Yadkin County Schools comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 5,174 students; Courtney Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Courtney Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Yadkin County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Yadkin County (around 83%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Courtney Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 54.9%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Yadkin County put the typical household earns roughly $62,932 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Courtney Elementary is one of 14 public schools in Yadkin County (combined enrollment of about 5,174 students).

Yadkin Success Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Courtney Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 58.5%.

Courtney Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 274 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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