Cox Mill Elementary

As a high-enrollment K-5 school in Concord, North Carolina, Cox Mill Elementary educates 1,086 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Cabarrus County Schools. That puts it 133% above the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Cabarrus County Schools runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 35,568 students. Cox Mill Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Cox Mill Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 11% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 6%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 11% of students at Cox Mill Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Cabarrus County's rate of about 56%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cox Mill Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 87.7%.

Around the school, Cabarrus County reports that median household income runs about $89,005, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Cabarrus County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students), of which Cox Mill Elementary is one.

Cox Mill High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cox Mill Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Cox Mill Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,008 (now 1,086). Asian enrollment moved from 21% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Cox Mill Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.