Glenwood Elementary School

Glenwood Elementary School operates as an average-sized elementary-level community in Marion, North Carolina, overseen by McDowell County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 435 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

McDowell County Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 5,712 students. Glenwood Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Glenwood Elementary School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Glenwood Elementary School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Glenwood Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Glenwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of -1.6 points.

Around the school, McDowell County reports that median household income runs about $57,168, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Glenwood Elementary School is one of 16 public schools in McDowell County (combined enrollment of about 5,712 students).

McDowell Early College is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Glenwood Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.1%.

Glenwood Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Glenwood Elementary School's enrollment has rose 22% since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 435). White enrollment moved from 89% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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