Johnston Charter Academy

At 40 Scholar Drive in Clayton, North Carolina, Johnston Charter Academy operates as a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 677 students in kindergarten through 8. On average, elementary schools in North Carolina enroll around 467, and this school is 45% bigger than that mark.

Johnston Charter Academy is its own local education agency in federal data.

At Johnston Charter Academy, White students make up the biggest share, 40%. Enrollment also includes 30% Black, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Johnston County, the White share is about 64%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.

Johnston Charter Academy lists 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 19.5 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in North Carolina, the average ratio is 14.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 51% of the student body. The average for public schools in Johnston County is 95%.

Johnston County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $83,384 a year, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Johnston Charter Academy shares Johnston County with 51 other public schools.

About 1.2 miles separate Johnston Charter Academy from the closest public school, Clayton Middle. Other public schools within five miles: 7.

Federal data place Johnston Charter Academy in the Suburb: Small locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.

Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 11%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 22.9:1 to 19.5:1 over the same years.

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