Edwin M Holt Elementary

Edwin M Holt Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Burlington, North Carolina, one of the schools within Alamance-Burlington Schools, enrolls 505 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 37 schools in Alamance-Burlington Schools (22,661 students total), Edwin M Holt Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Edwin M Holt Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment; the rest looks like 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Edwin M Holt Elementary shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alamance County (around 80%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Edwin M Holt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.9%, the actual is 59.3%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Alamance County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,651 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Edwin M Holt Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Alamance County (combined enrollment of about 25,737 students).

Nearest neighbor: Highland Elementary, around 3.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Edwin M Holt Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 40.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 557 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 87% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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