Mount Olive Elementary School

Located at 2145 Chestnut Grove Road, in King, North Carolina, Mount Olive Elementary School is a close-knit elementary school that teaches 316 students (grades K through 5), part of Stokes County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Mount Olive Elementary School sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Stokes County Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 5,758 students; Mount Olive Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mount Olive Elementary School logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Stokes County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Mount Olive Elementary School shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Stokes County's rate of about 82%.

With demographic context factored in, Mount Olive Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.6%; Mount Olive Elementary School posts 71.2%, +22.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Stokes County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,969 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Stokes County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,758 students), Mount Olive Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Chestnut Grove Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mount Olive Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 61.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Olive Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 289 (now 316). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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