Fred L Wilson Elementary

Fred L Wilson Elementary, an average-sized elementary campus in Kannapolis, North Carolina, run under Kannapolis City Schools, instructs 415 students, covering grades K through 5.

Kannapolis City Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,377 students. Fred L Wilson Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fred L Wilson Elementary lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 19% White, 14% Black, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Fred L Wilson Elementary shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Fred L Wilson Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Fred L Wilson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cabarrus County (around 56%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fred L Wilson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of -5.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cabarrus County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,005, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cabarrus County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students), of which Fred L Wilson Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: A L Brown High, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fred L Wilson Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fred L Wilson Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 18%: 353 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 43% to 60% over that span.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.