Kernersville Elementary

Kernersville Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Kernersville, North Carolina, one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, with 568 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Kernersville Elementary sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 79 schools in total, collectively educating 51,745 students. Kernersville Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kernersville Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 24% White, 22% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Kernersville Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Forsyth County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kernersville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +2.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Forsyth County put the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Kernersville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Kernersville Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kernersville Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kernersville Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Kernersville Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 816 (now 568). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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