Friendship Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Friendship Elementary hosts 470 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Davidson County Schools.

Within Davidson County Schools, which oversees 35 schools and 17,936 students, Friendship Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Friendship Elementary logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Friendship Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Davidson County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Friendship Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.7%; this one delivers 69.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Davidson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,172 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Friendship Elementary is one of 49 public schools in Davidson County (combined enrollment of about 23,696 students).

Ledford Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Friendship Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Friendship Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 473 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 73% to 63% over that span.

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