GE Massey Elementary

Located at 130 Newbold St, in Lincolnton, North Carolina, GE Massey Elementary is a compact primary school that teaches 370 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Lincoln County Schools. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Across the 22 schools in Lincoln County Schools (11,710 students total), GE Massey Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, GE Massey Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 17% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Lincoln County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, GE Massey Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at GE Massey Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lincoln County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GE Massey 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 44.9%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the broader community, Lincoln County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,016 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Lincoln County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,428 students), of which GE Massey Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: S Ray Lowder Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GE Massey Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 41%: 262 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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