Midway Elementary

Midway Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school in Lexington, North Carolina, operated by Davidson County Schools. The school educates 546 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Davidson County Schools comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 17,936 students; Midway Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Midway Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Midway Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 49% of students at Midway Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Davidson County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Midway Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.9%, the actual is 63.8%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Davidson County put the typical household earns roughly $64,172 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Midway Elementary is one of 49 public schools in Davidson County (combined enrollment of about 23,696 students).

The closest other public school is North Davidson Middle, roughly 2.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Midway Elementary. On composite proficiency, Midway Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Midway Elementary's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 516 (now 546). The White share of enrollment shrank from 82% to 77% over that span.

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