Iotla Valley Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Franklin, North Carolina, Iotla Valley Elementary caters to 408 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under Macon County Schools.

Macon County Schools comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 4,469 students; Iotla Valley Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Iotla Valley Elementary logs that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 16% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Iotla Valley Elementary has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Iotla Valley Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Macon County (around 82%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Iotla Valley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 50.9%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Macon County put median household income runs about $59,061, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Macon County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,469 students), of which Iotla Valley Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: East Franklin Elementary, around 3.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Iotla Valley Elementary. On composite proficiency, Iotla Valley Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 389 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 86% to 80%.

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