Oakwood Elementary

Set in Yanceyville, North Carolina, Oakwood Elementary is an intimate elementary campus, one of the schools within Caswell County Schools. It hosts 336 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Oakwood Elementary sits 28% leaner than that benchmark.

Caswell County Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,098 students. Oakwood Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Oakwood Elementary shows that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Oakwood Elementary shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oakwood 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 45.7%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Caswell County shows median household earnings sit near $59,755, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Caswell County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,098 students), of which Oakwood Elementary is one.

Bartlett Yancey High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 2 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), Oakwood Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 354 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 62% to 51%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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