Guilford Elementary

Guilford Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in Greensboro, North Carolina, one of the schools within Guilford County Schools, with 623 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Within Guilford County Schools, which oversees 123 schools and 68,535 students, Guilford Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Guilford Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 18% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, Guilford Elementary logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Guilford County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Guilford Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 35.4%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Guilford County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Guilford County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), of which Guilford Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Doris Henderson Newcomers Sch, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Guilford Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 51.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Guilford Elementary's enrollment has climbed 14% since 2018, when it stood at 548 (now 623). Black enrollment moved from 53% to 59% across the same window.

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