Green Ridge Elementary

Green Ridge Elementary is one of the low-enrollment primary schools in Biscoe, North Carolina, one of the schools within Montgomery County Schools, with 271 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 42% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Across the 11 schools in Montgomery County Schools (3,587 students total), Green Ridge Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Green Ridge Elementary lists that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 21% Black, 21% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Green Ridge Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Green Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 33.8%, a residual of -14.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $57,766 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Green Ridge Elementary is one of 12 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 3,818 students).

East Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Green Ridge Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Green Ridge Elementary has declined 33%, going from 403 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 15% to 21% across the same window.

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