Moss Street Elementary

Moss Street Elementary is an elementary campus of cozy scale in Reidsville, North Carolina, one of the schools within Rockingham County Schools, works with 354 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Moss Street Elementary sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

Rockingham County Schools runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 11,114 students. Moss Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moss Street Elementary shows that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 19% White, 18% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Moss Street Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Moss Street Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.1%; actual is 23.5%, a gap of -25.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Rockingham County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,053, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Moss Street Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Rockingham County (combined enrollment of about 12,299 students).

Moss Street Partnership School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Moss Street Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Moss Street Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 36.3%.

Moss Street Elementary operates from a town-based location.

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