Easton Elementary School

Easton Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Winston Salem, North Carolina, one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, with 504 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 79 schools in total, collectively educating 51,745 students. Easton Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Easton Elementary School reports that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 23% Black, 5% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, On paper, Easton Elementary School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Easton Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Forsyth County's rate of about 88%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Easton Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.5%; actual is 27.3%, a gap of -21.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Forsyth County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Easton Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carter G. Woodson School, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Easton Elementary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Easton Elementary School has ticked down 16%, going from 598 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 66% to 71% over that span.

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