Gouge Primary

Gouge Primary operates as a small elementary school in Bakersville, North Carolina. The school reports 144 students in pre-K through 2. The school's enrollment is 69% smaller than the 467 average for elementary schools in North Carolina.

Mitchell County Schools has 9 schools and 2,362 students, and Gouge Primary is one of those schools.

White students make up 94% of enrollment at Gouge Primary. Other students are 5% Hispanic. For comparison, Mitchell County is about 91% White. The school's diversity index is 12%, meaning two students picked at random have a 12% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Teachers at Gouge Primary total 13.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.0:1. That is 3.9 students per teacher below the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 98%. For comparison, public schools in Mitchell County average 98%.

Mitchell County has these Census figures: the median household income is $57,602, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. In all, Mitchell County has 8 public schools and roughly 2,249 students.

The closest public school, Bowman Middle, is about 0.3 miles from Gouge Primary. Other public schools within five miles: 4.

For locale, NCES codes Gouge Primary as Rural: Distant.

Enrollment is down 36% from 2020-21, when Gouge Primary had 224 students, to 2024-25, when it had 144.

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