Longview Elementary

As a tight-knit elementary campus in Hickory, North Carolina, Longview Elementary educates 269 students from grades 3 through 5, overseen by Hickory City Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Longview Elementary sits 42% below that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Hickory City Schools (3,735 students total), Longview Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Longview Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 30%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 25% White, 23% Black, 12% Asian, 10% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at school resources, Longview Elementary logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Catawba County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Longview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Catawba County) records that the typical household earns roughly $67,864 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Catawba County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,392 students), Longview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Oakwood Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Longview Elementary. On composite proficiency, Longview Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

Longview Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Longview Elementary has declined 25%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 269 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment grew from 5% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

On this page, members of the Longview Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.