1
Welcome to the Mountain View Elementary community. What's one thing that would make Mountain View Elementary even better?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
708
Elementary
DISTRICT 521 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CATAWBA COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370069000286
Mountain View Elementary
5911 Dwayne Starnes Road, Hickory, NC 28602 · (828) 294-2020 · Catawba County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL708 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
705 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 113 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 23% smaller than its 6th grade class (113).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
60.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
78.2%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in North Carolina's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mountain View Elementary
Mountain View Elementary's state test result (71.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Elementary this school | 708 | 99.6% | 71.2% |
| Balls Creek Elementary Newton | 686 | 99.6% | 66.1% |
| Clemmons Elementary Clemmons | 839 | 99.6% | 80.8% |
| Meadowlark Elementary Winston-Salem | 827 | 99.6% | 78.5% |
| Drexel Elementary Morganton | 477 | 98.7% | 57.2% |
| Oxford Elementary Claremont | 540 | 98.7% | 43.4% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mountain View Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Catawba County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.2% | #201 of 1,297 | #2 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.2% | #149 of 1,296 | #1 of 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #314 of 1,300 | #2 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 708 | #172 of 1,485 | #2 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #1,260 of 1,377 | #22 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #946 of 1,379 | #20 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #66 of 1,414 | #2 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #731 of 937 | #14 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
708
+11 (+2%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 716
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 708 | 40.4 | 17.5:1 | 100% (705) |
| 2023-24 | 713 | 45.5 | 15.7:1 | 51% (361) |
| 2022-23 | 686 | 45.4 | 15.1:1 | 49% (333) |
| 2020-21 | 697 | 45 | 15.5:1 | 39% (271) |
| 2017-18 | 757 | 42.4 | 17.9:1 | 40% (304) |
| 2015-16 | 765 | 43 | 17.8:1 | 42% (319) |
| 2010-11 | 735 | 42 | 17.5:1 | 39% (288) |
| 2000-01 | 733 | 50 | 14.7:1 | 22% (160) |
| 1990-91 | 716 | 41 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountain View Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (757 to 708); teachers down 5% (42.4 to 40.4).
About Mountain View Elementary
Mountain View Elementary runs as a large elementary school in Hickory, North Carolina. It educates 708 students in kindergarten through 6. The typical figure for elementary schools in North Carolina is about 467 students.
The district, Catawba County Schools, operates 28 schools serving 16,003 students.
Roughly 67% of students at Mountain View Elementary are White. Enrollment also includes 10% Asian, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 5% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 40.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 17.5:1. That is 2.6 students per teacher above the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 100%. The 86% average for public schools in Catawba County is 14 points lower.
The allk12 Grade for Mountain View Elementary is A. Compared with North Carolina public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 93% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 71.2%, is 22.8 points above the 48.4% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of North Carolina schools.
Among Catawba County residents, the median household income is $67,864, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Besides Mountain View Elementary, Catawba County has 43 other public schools.
Fred T Foard High is the closest public school, about 3.2 miles away in a straight line. In all, 7 other public schools sit within five miles of Mountain View Elementary. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Mountain View Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Mid-size.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 708, close to the 697 recorded in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio rising from 15.5:1 to 17.5:1.
Community posts for Mountain View Elementary can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Catawba County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
163,573
Census ACS
Median income
$67,864
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
22,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Catawba County Schools
- Saint Stephens HighHigh · 1,268 students
- Bandys HighHigh · 935 students
- Fred T Foard HighHigh · 930 students
- Maiden HighHigh · 852 students
- Bunker Hill HighHigh · 845 students
- Saint Stephens ElementaryElementary · 711 students
Other schools in Hickory
- Saint Stephens HighHigh · 1,268 students
- Hickory HighHigh · 1,024 students
- Harry M Arndt MiddleMiddle · 601 students
- Snow Creek ElementaryElementary · 551 students
- Viewmont ElementaryElementary · 509 students
- Clyde Campbell ElementaryElementary · 505 students
Other Mountain View Elementary schools
56 other US public schools in 23 states are named Mountain View Elementary. Mountain View Elementary is the 9th largest of the 57.
- Mountain View ElementaryMorganton, NC · 762 students
- Mountain View ElementaryJefferson, NC · 566 students
- Mountain View Elementary SchoolHays, NC · 488 students
- Mountain View Elementary SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 903 students
- Mountain View ElementaryRiverside, CA · 851 students
Nearby schools
- Fred T Foard High3.2 mi · 930
- Southwest Primary3.2 mi · 292
- Jacobs Fork Middle3.5 mi · 482
- Grandview Middle4.2 mi · 347
- Hildebran Elementary4.3 mi · 297
- Longview Elementary4.4 mi · 269
Frequently asked questions
About Mountain View ElementaryHow many students attend Mountain View Elementary?
Mountain View Elementary enrolls approximately 708 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Mountain View Elementary serve?
Mountain View Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Mountain View Elementary?
Approximately 17.5:1 students per teacher at Mountain View Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Mountain View Elementary?
Student demographics at Mountain View Elementary are roughly 67% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 10% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Mountain View Elementary in?
Mountain View Elementary is part of Catawba County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.