Mineral Springs Elementary

Mineral Springs Elementary, a reasonably sized elementary school in Winston Salem, North Carolina, one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, works with 545 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools comprises 79 schools with combined enrollment of 51,745 students; Mineral Springs Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mineral Springs Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest consists of 31% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Forsyth County's rate of about 88%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mineral Springs 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 40.6%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate median household income runs about $67,165, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Mineral Springs Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mineral Springs Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mineral Springs Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

Mineral Springs Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mineral Springs Elementary has decreased 10%, going from 603 students in 2018 to 545 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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