Hominy Valley Elementary

Located at 450 Enka Lake Road, in Candler, North Carolina, Hominy Valley Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus that educates 399 students (grades K through 4), run under Buncombe County Schools.

Across the 45 schools in Buncombe County Schools (22,452 students total), Hominy Valley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Hominy Valley Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 15% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Buncombe County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Hominy Valley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Buncombe County (around 88%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Hominy Valley 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 59.1%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Buncombe County) records that median household earnings sit near $74,436, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Buncombe County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,908 students), of which Hominy Valley Elementary is one.

Enka High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hominy Valley Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hominy Valley Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 49.8%.

Hominy Valley Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hominy Valley Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 399). The White share of enrollment decreased from 88% to 81% over that span.

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