Estes Hills Elementary

Estes Hills Elementary operates as a close-knit K-5 school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, overseen by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Current enrollment sits at 336 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 28% smaller than typical.

Estes Hills Elementary is one of 20 schools operated by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, a district that educates 11,392 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Estes Hills Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Estes Hills Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at Estes Hills Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Estes Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.8%, the actual is 77.9%, a residual of +7.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,089 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Orange County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,582 students), of which Estes Hills Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Phillips Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Estes Hills Elementary. On composite proficiency, Estes Hills Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 70.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Estes Hills Elementary's enrollment has shrank 32% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 336). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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