Moore Magnet Elementary

Set in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Moore Magnet Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, operated by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. It educates 450 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 79 schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools (51,745 students total), Moore Magnet Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Moore Magnet Elementary records that the largest single group is Black at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 21% White, 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Moore Magnet Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Forsyth County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Moore Magnet 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 49.7%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Moore Magnet Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bolton Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Moore Magnet Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Moore Magnet Elementary has shrank 18%, going from 549 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025.

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