Morehead Elementary

Located at 4630 Tower Road, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Morehead Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus that teaches 509 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Guilford County Schools.

Guilford County Schools runs 123 schools in total, collectively educating 68,535 students. Morehead Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Morehead Elementary reports that 57% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 23% White, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, Morehead Elementary logs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Guilford County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Morehead 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 55.4%, a residual of +6.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Guilford County put median household income runs about $68,642, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Morehead Elementary is one of 143 public schools in Guilford County (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students).

The closest other public school is Sternberger Elementary, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morehead Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.2%.

Morehead Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Morehead Elementary's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 621 (now 509). Over the same period, the White share declined from 30% to 23%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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