Hendersonville Elementary

Hendersonville Elementary is an elementary school of tight-knit scale in Hendersonville, North Carolina, overseen by Henderson County Schools, caters to 323 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 467.

Within Henderson County Schools, which oversees 23 schools and 12,619 students, Hendersonville Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hendersonville Elementary lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 39% of students at Hendersonville Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Henderson County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Hendersonville Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.0%; this one delivers 78.8%.

Across the wider county, Henderson County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,187, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Henderson County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,572 students), Hendersonville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hendersonville Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hendersonville Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hendersonville Elementary's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 323). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 7% to 2%.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.