Hickory Ridge Elementary

Located at 9464 Hickory Ridge Rd, in Harrisburg, North Carolina, Hickory Ridge Elementary is a well-populated elementary school that teaches 927 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Cabarrus County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 99% bigger than the state mean of about 467.

Cabarrus County Schools comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 35,568 students; Hickory Ridge Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Hickory Ridge Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 31% White, 16% Black, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 6%.

Looking at school resources, Hickory Ridge Elementary lists 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cabarrus County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hickory Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.3%, the actual is 82.6%, a residual of +8.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cabarrus County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,005 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Hickory Ridge Elementary is one of 56 public schools in Cabarrus County (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students).

Hickory Ridge High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hickory Ridge Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hickory Ridge Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 66.6%.

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