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Enrollment
827
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINSTON SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370150002379
Meadowlark Elementary
401 Meadowlark Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27106 · (336) 703-4208 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL827 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
15.0:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
824 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 110 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 135 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 131 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 152 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 155 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 142 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (110) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (142).
Student demographics
66%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
72.9%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
80.7%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+30.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in North Carolina's top 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 Meadowlark Elementary
Meadowlark Elementary's state test result (78.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowlark Elementary this school | 827 | 99.6% | 78.5% |
| Clemmons Elementary Clemmons | 839 | 99.6% | 80.8% |
| W A Bess Elementary School Gastonia | 674 | 99.6% | 65.4% |
| Mountain View Elementary Hickory | 708 | 99.6% | 71.2% |
| Oxford Elementary Claremont | 540 | 98.7% | 43.4% |
| Wintergreen Intermediate Greenville | 821 | 99.6% | 76.1% |
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 Meadowlark Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.5% | #95 of 1,297 | #7 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.7% | #111 of 1,296 | #6 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #99 of 1,300 | #8 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 827 | #62 of 1,485 | #2 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #743 of 1,377 | #34 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.1% | #417 of 1,379 | #13 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #20 of 1,414 | #2 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.3% | #899 of 937 | #31 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
827
+37 (+5%) vs 2020
+33% since 2000-01, when it was 622
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 827 | 55.2 | 15.0:1 | 100% (824) |
| 2023-24 | 809 | 58.7 | 13.8:1 | 36% (289) |
| 2022-23 | 831 | 55.8 | 14.9:1 | 35% (295) |
| 2020-21 | 790 | 53 | 14.9:1 | 20% (155) |
| 2017-18 | 838 | 52.5 | 15.9:1 | 20% (169) |
| 2015-16 | 792 | 47 | 16.9:1 | 21% (165) |
| 2010-11 | 786 | 54 | 14.6:1 | 18% (142) |
| 2000-01 | 622 | 31 | 20.1:1 | 17% (105) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meadowlark Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (838 to 827); teachers up 5% (52.5 to 55.2).
About Meadowlark Elementary
Meadowlark Elementary is a large elementary school with an address in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It reported 827 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in North Carolina have about 467 students on average; enrollment here is 77% higher.
Meadowlark Elementary is one of 79 schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, which enrolls 51,745 students in total.
More than half of the students at Meadowlark Elementary are White (53%). Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Black, 13% Asian, 13% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. That is in line with Forsyth County, where about 56% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Meadowlark Elementary scores 66%.
Its ratio of 15.0:1 is based on 55.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. In all, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Forsyth County report 88%.
Meadowlark Elementary holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 98% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Meadowlark Elementary beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 30.1 points (78.5% versus 48.4%), a top-10% result in North Carolina on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Forsyth County, the median household earns about $67,165 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Forsyth County has 88 public schools with about 55,902 students, including Meadowlark Elementary.
Meadowlark Middle is about 0.1 miles from Meadowlark Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 67.2%, lower than Meadowlark Elementary's 78.5%.
Federal data place Meadowlark Elementary in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 37 students, from 790 to 827.
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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 Winston-Salem
- Atkins Academic & Tech HighHigh · 1,187 students
- Clemmons Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,092 students
- Oak Grove HighHigh · 992 students
- Meadowlark MiddleMiddle · 857 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMiddle · 808 students
- Quality Education AcademyCombined · 776 students
Other Meadowlark Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 7 states are named Meadowlark Elementary. Meadowlark Elementary is the largest of the 12.
- Meadowlark ElementaryBozeman, MT · 492 students
- Meadowlark ElementaryCheyenne, WY · 453 students
- MEADOWLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLKEARNEY, NE · 417 students
- Meadowlark ElementaryPittsburg, KS · 403 students
- MEADOWLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFargo, ND · 379 students
Nearby schools
- Meadowlark Middle0.1 mi · 857
- Jefferson Elementary1.9 mi · 560
- South Fork Elementary2.4 mi · 503
- Lewisville Middle2.4 mi · 888
- Southwest Elementary2.5 mi · 546
- Thomas Jefferson Middle2.6 mi · 808
Frequently asked questions
About Meadowlark ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Meadowlark Elementary?
Meadowlark Elementary enrolls approximately 827 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Meadowlark Elementary serve?
Meadowlark Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Meadowlark Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Meadowlark Elementary is approximately 15.0:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Meadowlark Elementary?
At Meadowlark Elementary, the student body is approximately 53% White, 13% Hispanic, 14% Black, 13% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Meadowlark Elementary public or private?
Meadowlark Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.