North Windy Ridge Intermediate

Set in Weaverville, North Carolina, North Windy Ridge Intermediate is a compact middle-grades school, one of the schools within Buncombe County Schools. It educates 487 students across grades 5 through 6.

Across the 45 schools in Buncombe County Schools (22,452 students total), North Windy Ridge Intermediate accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, North Windy Ridge Intermediate records that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, 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. Set against Buncombe County (around 88%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, North Windy Ridge Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 64.3%, a residual of +15.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Buncombe County put median household earnings sit near $74,436, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. North Windy Ridge Intermediate is one of 61 public schools in Buncombe County (combined enrollment of about 29,908 students).

North Buncombe Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around North Windy Ridge Intermediate. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North Windy Ridge Intermediate at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 58.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Windy Ridge Intermediate has shrank 20%, going from 606 students in 2018 to 487 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 83% to 76%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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