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What's the most underrated thing about Haw River Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
490
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS·NCES 370003000011
Haw River Elementary
701 E Main Street, Haw River, NC 27258 · (336) 578-0177 · Alamance County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL490 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
15.1:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
484 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 | 40 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
55%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
26.3%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
36.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.7%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Haw River Elementary
Haw River Elementary's state test result (28.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haw River Elementary this school | 490 | 98.8% | 28.5% |
| Eastlawn Elementary Burlington | 528 | 99.4% | 22.3% |
| Sunset Park Elementary Wilmington | 450 | 99.3% | 42.3% |
| R Homer Andrews Elementary Burlington | 498 | 99.4% | 34.6% |
| Glenn Elementary Durham | 455 | 99.3% | 50.2% |
| Walter Bickett Elementary Monroe | 444 | 99.3% | 31.5% |
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 Haw River Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Alamance County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #1,255 of 1,297 | #17 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #1,185 of 1,296 | #14 of 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #1,239 of 1,300 | #16 of 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 490 | #642 of 1,485 | #15 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #776 of 1,377 | #9 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.5% | #856 of 1,379 | #18 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.8% | #756 of 1,414 | #13 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.1% | #547 of 937 | #6 of 14 |
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
490
+22 (+5%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 452
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 490 | 32.5 | 15.1:1 | 99% (484) |
| 2023-24 | 554 | 34.8 | 15.9:1 | 99% (551) |
| 2022-23 | 494 | 31.9 | 15.5:1 | 99% (491) |
| 2020-21 | 468 | 31 | 15.1:1 | 99% (465) |
| 2017-18 | 551 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 99% (548) |
| 2015-16 | 576 | 43 | 13.4:1 | 99% (573) |
| 2010-11 | 478 | 37 | 12.9:1 | 95% (456) |
| 2000-01 | 508 | 35 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 452 | 24 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Haw River Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (551 to 490); teachers down 17% (39 to 32.5).
About Haw River Elementary
Haw River Elementary is an elementary school in Haw River, North Carolina, according to federal school records. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 490 students on the rolls.
The 37 schools in Alamance-Burlington Schools enroll 22,661 students altogether, Haw River Elementary among them.
The largest group at Haw River Elementary is Hispanic students, at 61%. Other groups make up 24% Black, 8% White, and 7% multiracial. County-wide, 15% of Alamance County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for Haw River Elementary is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 32.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 15.1:1. The 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina is close to this figure. The school reported 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Alamance County is 80%.
Among North Carolina public elementary schools, Haw River Elementary outscored 3%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
After accounting for student poverty, Haw River Elementary is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 28.5% is 20.2 points below the 48.7% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Alamance County, median household income comes to about $65,651, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Alamance County counts 42 public schools with about 25,737 students.
Alamance Community School is about 1.4 miles from Haw River Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 35.6% proficiency; Haw River Elementary posts 28.5%.
NCES assigns Haw River Elementary the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment was 490 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 468.
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Alamance County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
176,893
Census ACS
Median income
$65,651
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
25,737 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Alamance-Burlington Schools
- Walter M Williams HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Southern Alamance HighHigh · 1,148 students
- Western Alamance HighHigh · 1,138 students
- Southeast Alamance HighHigh · 1,079 students
- Eastern Alamance HighHigh · 952 students
- Hawfields MiddleMiddle · 864 students
Other schools in Haw River
- Southeast Alamance HighHigh · 1,079 students
- Alamance Community SchoolElementary · 736 students
Nearby schools
- Alamance Community School1.4 mi · 736
- R Homer Andrews Elementary1.4 mi · 498
- North Graham Elementary1.6 mi · 362
- Graham High1.8 mi · 828
- ABSS Early College at ACC1.8 mi · 247
- Hugh M Cummings High2.2 mi · 807
Frequently asked questions
About Haw River ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Haw River Elementary?
Haw River Elementary enrolls approximately 490 students in grades PK-05.
Is Haw River Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Haw River Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Haw River Elementary have?
Haw River Elementary employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Haw River Elementary?
Student demographics at Haw River Elementary are roughly 8% White, 61% Hispanic, 24% Black, 7% Two or more.
Is Haw River Elementary public or private?
Haw River Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Alamance-Burlington Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.