East Iredell Elementary

Located at 400 E Elementary Rd, in Statesville, North Carolina, East Iredell Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school that enrolls 663 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Iredell-Statesville Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 42% above the state mean of about 467.

East Iredell Elementary is one of 38 schools operated by Iredell-Statesville Schools, a district that teaches 21,017 students overall.

In terms of who attends, East Iredell Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 30% Black, 22% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, East Iredell Elementary has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting East Iredell Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Iredell County's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), East Iredell Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Iredell County put the typical household earns roughly $81,419 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. East Iredell Elementary is one of 52 public schools in Iredell County (combined enrollment of about 31,906 students).

Discovery School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East Iredell Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), East Iredell Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 849 students in 2018 compared to 663 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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