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What's the most underrated thing about Hall-Woodward Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
532
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINSTON SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370150000607
Hall-Woodward Elementary
125 Nicholson Road, Winston Salem, NC 27107 · (336) 703-4238 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL532 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
529 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 13 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
26.9%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
51.0%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hall-Woodward Elementary
Hall-Woodward Elementary's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hall-Woodward Elementary this school | 532 | 99.4% | 38.7% |
| Forest Park Elementary Winston Salem | 522 | 99.4% | 39.5% |
| R Homer Andrews Elementary Burlington | 498 | 99.4% | 34.6% |
| Easton Elementary School Winston Salem | 504 | 99.4% | 27.3% |
| Oaklawn Language Academy Charlotte | 531 | 97.4% | 67.1% |
| Devonshire Elementary Charlotte | 550 | 99.5% | 31.6% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hall-Woodward Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #1,125 of 1,297 | #34 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #877 of 1,296 | #26 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #1,231 of 1,300 | #36 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 532 | #521 of 1,485 | #24 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #8 of 1,377 | #1 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.3% | #1,019 of 1,379 | #39 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #234 of 1,414 | #20 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.3% | #257 of 937 | #11 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
532
-48 (-8%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 702
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 13.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 532 | 53.4 | 10.0:1 | 99% (529) |
| 2023-24 | 586 | 45.3 | 12.9:1 | 99% (583) |
| 2022-23 | 553 | 44.1 | 12.5:1 | 99% (550) |
| 2020-21 | 580 | 44 | 13.2:1 | 99% (577) |
| 2017-18 | 676 | 46 | 14.7:1 | 100% (673) |
| 2015-16 | 674 | 47 | 14.3:1 | 100% (673) |
| 2010-11 | 795 | 65 | 12.2:1 | 99% (789) |
| 2000-01 | 500 | 51 | 9.8:1 | 87% (437) |
| 1990-91 | 702 | 42 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hall-Woodward Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (676 to 532); teachers up 16% (46 to 53.4).
About Hall-Woodward Elementary
Hall-Woodward Elementary is a public mid-sized elementary school in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 532 students.
Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools is the local district for Hall-Woodward Elementary. It runs 79 schools with 51,745 students.
Hispanic students are 67% of those enrolled at Hall-Woodward Elementary. Other reported shares: 26% Black, 4% White, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 15% Hispanic among all Forsyth County residents. A diversity index of 48% means there is a 48% chance two randomly chosen students at Hall-Woodward Elementary are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.0:1. The school has 53.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in North Carolina, the average ratio is 14.9:1. Federal data show 99% of students (529) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 88% average for public schools in Forsyth County is 11 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Hall-Woodward Elementary lands at D, ahead of 13% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Hall-Woodward Elementary is 9.8 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 38.7% actual, 48.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in North Carolina.
In the wider Forsyth County area, the median household earns about $67,165 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Across Forsyth County, 88 public schools serve about 55,902 students.
Of the public schools around it, Hall-Woodward Elementary is closest to Smith Farm Elementary, about 1.9 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 46.3%; Hall-Woodward Elementary's is 38.7%, ranking 6th of 9.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 532, down from 580 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 13.2:1 to 10.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The Hall-Woodward Elementary discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
389,977
Census ACS
Median income
$67,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
55,902 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- West Forsyth HighHigh · 2,145 students
- Ronald W Reagan High SchoolHigh · 2,122 students
- R J Reynolds HighHigh · 1,759 students
- East Forsyth HighHigh · 1,647 students
- Parkland HighHigh · 1,569 students
- Mount Tabor High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
Other schools in Winston Salem
- R J Reynolds HighHigh · 1,759 students
- Parkland HighHigh · 1,569 students
- Mount Tabor High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
- North Forsyth Magnet HighHigh · 1,084 students
- Hanes Magnet SchoolMiddle · 967 students
- Speas ElementaryElementary · 793 students
Nearby schools
- Smith Farm Elementary1.9 mi · 440
- Hanes Magnet School2.1 mi · 967
- Atkins Academic & Tech High2.4 mi · 1,187
- Sedge Garden Elementary2.4 mi · 714
- Forest Park Elementary2.4 mi · 522
- Petree Elementary2.5 mi · 519
Frequently asked questions
About Hall-Woodward ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Hall-Woodward Elementary?
Hall-Woodward Elementary enrolls approximately 532 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Hall-Woodward Elementary serve?
Hall-Woodward Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Hall-Woodward Elementary have?
Hall-Woodward Elementary employs 53 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Hall-Woodward Elementary?
Student demographics at Hall-Woodward Elementary are roughly 4% White, 67% Hispanic, 26% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Hall-Woodward Elementary?
Hall-Woodward Elementary is overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools in Forsyth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.