Old Town Elementary

Old Town Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in Winston Salem, North Carolina, run under Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 617 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% larger than the state mean of about 467.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 79 schools in total, collectively educating 51,745 students. Old Town Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Old Town Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% White, 2% Pacific Islander. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, Old Town Elementary lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Forsyth County's rate of about 88%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Old Town Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of -16.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Forsyth County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), of which Old Town Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: The Special Children's School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Old Town Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.6%.

Old Town Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Old Town Elementary's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 636 (now 617). The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 63% to 55% over that span.

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