Indian Trail Elementary

Indian Trail Elementary, a mid-sized K-5 school in Indian Trail, North Carolina, run under Union County Public Schools, caters to 633 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 36% larger than typical.

Indian Trail Elementary is one of 52 schools operated by Union County Public Schools, a district that educates 41,272 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Indian Trail Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 24% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Indian Trail Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 61.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Union County) logs that median household income runs about $102,900, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Union County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,934 students), Indian Trail Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Union Prep Academy at Indian Trail is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Indian Trail Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.0%.

Indian Trail Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 599 students in 2018 compared to 633 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 53% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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