North Kannapolis Elementary

As a tight-knit elementary campus in Kannapolis, North Carolina, North Kannapolis Elementary enrolls 296 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Kannapolis City Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so North Kannapolis Elementary sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Kannapolis City Schools (5,377 students total), North Kannapolis Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, North Kannapolis Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 21% White, 19% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Rowan County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at North Kannapolis Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Kannapolis Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Rowan County) records that the typical household earns roughly $65,725 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Rowan County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,917 students), of which North Kannapolis Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is A L Brown High, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, North Kannapolis Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Kannapolis Elementary has shrank 21%, going from 377 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 42% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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