Enrollment
336
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HICKORY CITY SCHOOLS·NCES 370219000948
Oakwood Elementary
366 4th Street NW, Hickory, NC 28601 · (828) 322-1340 · Catawba County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL336 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- ATest 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
17.0:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
333 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 82%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 17 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
68.1%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
71.7%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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
72.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% 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 24 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 Oakwood Elementary
Oakwood Elementary's state test result (72.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakwood Elementary this school | 336 | 99.1% | 72.4% |
| Springfield Primary Stanley | 352 | 99.1% | N/A |
| Kiser Elementary Stanley | 328 | 99.1% | 47.1% |
| Eastover-Central Elementary Eastover | 401 | 99.3% | 75.7% |
| Norwood Elementary Norwood | 354 | 99.2% | 56.9% |
| Washington Elementary Shelby | 376 | 97.9% | 51.7% |
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 Oakwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Catawba County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #177 of 1,297 | #1 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #295 of 1,296 | #5 of 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #163 of 1,300 | #1 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 336 | #1,099 of 1,485 | #19 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #1,217 of 1,377 | #19 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.5% | #600 of 1,379 | #13 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.1% | #586 of 1,414 | #14 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #582 of 937 | #11 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
336
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 351
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 336 | 19.8 | 17.0:1 | 99% (333) |
| 2023-24 | 326 | 20.5 | 15.9:1 | 99% (323) |
| 2022-23 | 341 | 21.4 | 16.0:1 | 56% (191) |
| 2020-21 | 328 | 19 | 17.3:1 | 43% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 21.2 | 17.6:1 | 52% (196) |
| 2015-16 | 390 | 22 | 17.7:1 | 61% (236) |
| 2010-11 | 408 | 24 | 17.0:1 | 57% (233) |
| 2000-01 | 346 | 20 | 17.3:1 | 48% (165) |
| 1990-91 | 351 | 18 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oakwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (374 to 336); teachers down 7% (21.2 to 19.8).
About Oakwood Elementary
Oakwood Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school that serves part of Hickory, North Carolina. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 336 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 28% below the 467-student average for elementary schools in North Carolina.
Oakwood Elementary sits within Hickory City Schools, which has 9 schools and 3,735 students.
More than half of the students at Oakwood Elementary are White (56%). The rest of enrollment is 18% Black, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Catawba County's population at about 75%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Oakwood Elementary scores 62%.
The school's 19.8 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.0:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1, 2.1 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Catawba County averages 86%, lower than here.
Among North Carolina public elementary schools, Oakwood Elementary outscored 94%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 72.4%, is 23.8 points above the 48.6% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of North Carolina schools.
Catawba County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $67,864 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Public schools in Catawba County number 44, with about 22,392 students.
Of the public schools around it, Oakwood Elementary is closest to Hickory Career Arts Magnet High School, about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Oakwood Elementary at 1st of 8.
Under the NCES locale system, Oakwood Elementary is City: Small.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 336, close to the 328 recorded in 2020-21.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Hickory City Schools
- Hickory HighHigh · 1,024 students
- Viewmont ElementaryElementary · 509 students
- Northview MiddleMiddle · 481 students
- Grandview MiddleMiddle · 347 students
- Southwest PrimaryElementary · 292 students
- W M Jenkins ElementaryElementary · 276 students
Other schools in Hickory
- Saint Stephens HighHigh · 1,268 students
- Hickory HighHigh · 1,024 students
- Mountain View ElementaryElementary · 708 students
- Harry M Arndt MiddleMiddle · 601 students
- Snow Creek ElementaryElementary · 551 students
- Viewmont ElementaryElementary · 509 students
Other Oakwood Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 12 states are named Oakwood Elementary. Oakwood Elementary is the 9th largest of the 14.
- Oakwood ElementaryYanceyville, NC · 336 students
- Oakwood Elementary SchoolPEORIA, AZ · 937 students
- OAKWOOD ELEMENTARYPLYMOUTH, MN · 545 students
- Oakwood ElementaryStockton, CA · 522 students
- OAKWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPRESTON, ID · 516 students
Nearby schools
- Hickory Career Arts Magnet High School0.8 mi · 201
- Hickory High1.1 mi · 1,024
- Viewmont Elementary1.1 mi · 509
- Longview Elementary1.3 mi · 269
- Northview Middle2.3 mi · 481
- Grandview Middle2.4 mi · 347
Frequently asked questions
About Oakwood ElementaryHow large is Oakwood Elementary?
Oakwood Elementary enrolls approximately 336 students in grades PK-05.
Is Oakwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oakwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Oakwood Elementary have?
Oakwood Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Oakwood Elementary?
Student demographics at Oakwood Elementary are roughly 56% White, 15% Hispanic, 18% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Oakwood Elementary in?
Oakwood Elementary is part of Hickory City Schools.
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