Freedom Trail Elementary

Freedom Trail Elementary, an intimate primary school in Elk Park, North Carolina, operated by Avery County Schools, instructs 202 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 467.

Across the 8 schools in Avery County Schools (1,782 students total), Freedom Trail Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Freedom Trail Elementary reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Avery County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Freedom Trail Elementary logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Freedom Trail Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 63.8%.

In the broader community, Avery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,428 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Avery County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,025 students), of which Freedom Trail Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cranberry Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Freedom Trail Elementary. On composite proficiency, Freedom Trail Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Freedom Trail Elementary's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 208 (now 202). White enrollment moved from 93% to 88% across the same window.

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