Meadowbrook Elementary

Meadowbrook Elementary, a tight-knit K-5 school in Canton, North Carolina, one of the schools within Haywood County Schools, educates 198 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Meadowbrook Elementary sits 58% below that benchmark.

Haywood County Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 6,476 students. Meadowbrook Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Meadowbrook Elementary lists that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Meadowbrook Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.9%; this one delivers 46.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Haywood County shows median household income runs about $61,912, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Haywood County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,092 students), of which Meadowbrook Elementary is one.

Pisgah High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Meadowbrook Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.4%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 287 students in 2018 compared to 198 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share climbed from 79% to 86%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.