Granite Quarry Elementary

Located at 118 South Walnut St, in Salisbury, North Carolina, Granite Quarry Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 586 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Rowan-Salisbury Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 25% bigger than the state mean of about 467.

Rowan-Salisbury Schools runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 17,683 students. Granite Quarry Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Granite Quarry Elementary logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 22% Black, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Granite Quarry Elementary lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Granite Quarry Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 40.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Rowan County put the typical household earns roughly $65,725 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Rowan County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,917 students), Granite Quarry Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Faith Academy Charter School, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Granite Quarry Elementary. On composite proficiency, Granite Quarry Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Granite Quarry Elementary has ticked up 7%, going from 547 students in 2018 to 586 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 61% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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