Oak Hill Elementary

Set in Morganton, North Carolina, Oak Hill Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school, operated by Burke County Schools. It caters to 310 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% leaner than the state mean of about 467.

Burke County Schools runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 11,667 students. Oak Hill Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Oak Hill Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 13% Black, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Oak Hill Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Hill 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.

Across the wider county, census data for Burke County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,592 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Burke County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,360 students), Oak Hill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Table Rock Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Hill Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak Hill Elementary has decreased 25%, going from 414 students in 2018 to 310 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 5% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for Oak Hill Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.