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If you had an hour of school board time for Kernersville Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
568
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINSTON SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370150000613
Kernersville Elementary
512 W Mountain Street, Kernersville, NC 27284 · (336) 703-4100 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL568 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
565 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
41.7%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
51.7%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Kernersville Elementary
Kernersville Elementary's state test result (50.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kernersville Elementary this school | 568 | 99.5% | 50.5% |
| Bailey Elementary Bailey | 580 | 99.5% | 58.4% |
| Wrightsboro Elementary Wilmington | 502 | 98.4% | 42.1% |
| H H Beam Elementary Gastonia | 591 | 99.5% | 25.2% |
| J Glenn Edwards Elementary Sanford | 587 | 99.5% | 52.2% |
| Carver Elementary Wendell | 495 | 99.4% | 52.9% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kernersville Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #796 of 1,297 | #20 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #846 of 1,296 | #24 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.7% | #881 of 1,300 | #23 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 568 | #419 of 1,485 | #19 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #138 of 1,377 | #13 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #259 of 1,379 | #10 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #182 of 1,414 | #15 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.4% | #92 of 937 | #5 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
568
-115 (-17%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 755
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 14.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 568 | 45.7 | 12.4:1 | 99% (565) |
| 2023-24 | 614 | 48.5 | 12.7:1 | 99% (609) |
| 2022-23 | 627 | 49.5 | 12.7:1 | 99% (620) |
| 2020-21 | 683 | 48 | 14.2:1 | 99% (675) |
| 2017-18 | 816 | 57.7 | 14.1:1 | 100% (813) |
| 2015-16 | 842 | 58 | 14.5:1 | 100% (839) |
| 2010-11 | 893 | 60 | 14.9:1 | 67% (597) |
| 2000-01 | 927 | 67 | 13.8:1 | 46% (424) |
| 1990-91 | 755 | 52 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kernersville Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (816 to 568); teachers down 21% (57.7 to 45.7).
About Kernersville Elementary
Kernersville Elementary is an elementary school in Kernersville, North Carolina, reachable at (336) 703-4100. A total of 568 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in North Carolina is about 467 students, so this school is 22% larger than average.
Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools has 51,745 students spread across 79 schools.
At Kernersville Elementary, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 44%. The next largest groups are 24% White, 22% Black, and 9% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 29 points above the 15% share among Forsyth County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 45.7 full-time equivalents, or about 12.4 students per teacher. This ratio sits 2.4 below the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 99%. Across public schools in Forsyth County, the average is 88%.
Kernersville Elementary is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 41% of North Carolina public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Kernersville Elementary is 2.0 points above its prediction. Actual: 50.5%. Predicted: 48.5%.
Federal survey data for Forsyth County show that the median household income is $67,165, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Forsyth County is home to 88 public schools and about 55,902 public school students.
The closest public school to Kernersville Elementary is Kernersville Middle, about 0.7 miles away. Kernersville Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 50.5% average proficiency ranks 6th among 9 nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put Kernersville Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment declined 17% from its 2020-21 level of 683. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.2:1 in 2020-21 to 12.4:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Kernersville Elementary can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
389,977
Census ACS
Median income
$67,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
55,902 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- West Forsyth HighHigh · 2,145 students
- Ronald W Reagan High SchoolHigh · 2,122 students
- R J Reynolds HighHigh · 1,759 students
- East Forsyth HighHigh · 1,647 students
- Parkland HighHigh · 1,569 students
- Mount Tabor High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
Other schools in Kernersville
- East Forsyth HighHigh · 1,647 students
- Robert B Glenn High SchoolHigh · 1,396 students
- NC Leadership Charter AcademyCombined · 1,209 students
- East Forsyth Middle SchoolMiddle · 772 students
- Kernersville MiddleMiddle · 754 students
- Southeast MiddleMiddle · 733 students
Nearby schools
- Kernersville Middle0.7 mi · 754
- Cash Elementary2.5 mi · 520
- Piney Grove Elementary2.7 mi · 635
- East Forsyth Middle School2.7 mi · 772
- Southeast Middle3.2 mi · 733
- Caleb's Creek Elementary3.4 mi · 642
Frequently asked questions
About Kernersville ElementaryHow large is Kernersville Elementary?
Kernersville Elementary enrolls approximately 568 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Kernersville Elementary serve?
Kernersville Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Kernersville Elementary?
Approximately 12.4:1 students per teacher at Kernersville Elementary.
How diverse is Kernersville Elementary?
Kernersville Elementary reports a student body of 24% White, 44% Hispanic, 22% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Kernersville Elementary in?
Kernersville Elementary is part of Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.