Iron Station Elementary

Iron Station Elementary is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in Iron Station, North Carolina, one of the schools within Lincoln County Schools, with 367 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 21% below typical.

Within Lincoln County Schools, which oversees 22 schools and 11,710 students, Iron Station Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Iron Station Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest consists of 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Iron Station Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Iron Station Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lincoln County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Iron Station Elementary ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.7%; Iron Station Elementary posts 70.8%, +22.1 points above that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lincoln County put the typical household earns roughly $80,016 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Iron Station Elementary is one of 25 public schools in Lincoln County (combined enrollment of about 14,428 students).

Nearest neighbor: Asbury Academy, around 2.7 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Iron Station Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Iron Station Elementary's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 367).

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