Green Valley Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Boone, North Carolina, Green Valley Elementary instructs 292 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Watauga County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 467.

Within Watauga County Schools, which oversees 11 schools and 4,658 students, Green Valley Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Green Valley Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Watauga County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Green Valley Elementary shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Watauga County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Green Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.2%, the actual is 56.5%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Watauga County reports that median household earnings sit near $51,693, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Watauga County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,821 students), of which Green Valley Elementary is one.

Watauga Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Green Valley Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 61.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Green Valley Elementary's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 292). Over the same period, the White share declined from 95% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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