Greensboro Academy

Greensboro Academy is one of the heavily attended K-5 schools in Greensboro, North Carolina, part of Greensboro Academy, with 777 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 66% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Greensboro Academy is the operating authority for Greensboro Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, Greensboro Academy records that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 23% Asian, 17% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Guilford County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Guilford County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Guilford County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), Greensboro Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kernodle Middle, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Greensboro Academy.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Greensboro Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Greensboro Academy has grew 3%, going from 756 students in 2018 to 777 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 71% to 46%. Class-load math has rose: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 in 2025.

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