Mountain View Elementary

Mountain View Elementary operates as a well-populated elementary campus in Morganton, North Carolina, one of the schools within Burke County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 762 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 63% larger than typical.

Across the 26 schools in Burke County Schools (11,667 students total), Mountain View Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Mountain View Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 38% White, 8% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Burke County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mountain View Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Burke County reports that median household earnings sit near $58,592, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Mountain View Elementary is one of 30 public schools in Burke County (combined enrollment of about 12,360 students).

Freedom High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain View Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain View Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

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