Mountain Park Elementary

Set in State Road, North Carolina, Mountain Park Elementary is a cozy elementary campus, one of the schools within Surry County Schools. It educates 188 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 60% smaller than typical.

Surry County Schools runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 7,318 students. Mountain Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mountain Park Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mountain Park Elementary sits in the top 10% of North Carolina schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 48.8%; actual is 67.3%, +18.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Surry County put the typical household earns roughly $55,656 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mountain Park Elementary is one of 30 public schools in Surry County (combined enrollment of about 11,139 students).

Nearest neighbor: Central Middle, around 6.7 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Mountain Park Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 171 students in 2018 compared to 188 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 78% to 71%.

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