Davis-Townsend Elementary

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Lexington, North Carolina, Davis-Townsend Elementary hosts 430 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Davidson County Schools.

Within Davidson County Schools, which oversees 35 schools and 17,936 students, Davis-Townsend Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Davis-Townsend Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Davidson County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Davis-Townsend Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Davis-Townsend Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Davidson County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Davis-Townsend Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of +13.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Davidson County indicate median household income runs about $64,172, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Davis-Townsend Elementary is one of 49 public schools in Davidson County (combined enrollment of about 23,696 students).

Nearest neighbor: Davidson County High School, around 1.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Davis-Townsend Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 58.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Davis-Townsend Elementary has fell 14%, going from 498 students in 2018 to 430 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 87% to 80% over that span.

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