Crossnore Elementary

Crossnore Elementary operates as a rural-scale elementary school in Crossnore, North Carolina, part of Avery County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 184 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Crossnore Elementary sits 61% below that benchmark.

Avery County Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 1,782 students; Crossnore Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Crossnore Elementary lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 15% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Crossnore Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Avery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,428 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Avery County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,025 students), Crossnore Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Marjorie Williams Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crossnore Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 50.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Crossnore Elementary's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 216 (now 184).

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