Farmer Elementary School

Farmer Elementary School, a small K-5 school in Asheboro, North Carolina, one of the schools within Randolph County School System, enrolls 230 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 51% smaller than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Randolph County School System runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 14,994 students. Farmer Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Farmer Elementary School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Farmer Elementary School logs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at Farmer Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Randolph County (around 84%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Farmer Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 50.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Randolph County) shows that median household earnings sit near $61,022, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Farmer Elementary School is one of 42 public schools in Randolph County (combined enrollment of about 21,656 students).

Uwharrie Ridge Six-Twelve is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.4 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Farmer Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.9%.

Farmer Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Farmer Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 37% since 2018, when it stood at 365 (now 230).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Farmer Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.