Granville Academy

Granville Academy is an unified-grade school of minimally staffed scale in Oxford, North Carolina, run under Granville County Schools, enrolling 207 students in grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 72% smaller than the state mean of about 731.

Across the 16 schools in Granville County Schools (6,402 students total), Granville Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Granville Academy reports that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder consists of 20% Black, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.1:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Granville Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, census data for Granville County shows median household earnings sit near $71,111, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Granville Academy is one of 20 public schools in Granville County (combined enrollment of about 8,376 students).

Phoenix Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Granville Academy.

The campus sits in a town-center setting. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.