Hot Springs Elementary

Located at 63 Serpentine Ave, in Hot Springs, North Carolina, Hot Springs Elementary is an one-room-style elementary school that hosts 128 students (grades K through 5), part of Madison County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 73% leaner than the state mean of about 467.

Madison County Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,063 students; Hot Springs Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Hot Springs Elementary reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hot Springs Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Madison County) records that median household income runs about $58,531, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Hot Springs Elementary is one of 7 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 2,063 students).

Madison Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hot Springs Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 130 students in 2018 compared to 128 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.