Oxford Elementary

Oxford Elementary is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Claremont, North Carolina, overseen by Catawba County Schools, with 540 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Catawba County Schools runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 16,003 students. Oxford Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oxford Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 58%; the rest reads as 16% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Catawba County's rate of about 86%.

With demographic context factored in, Oxford Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 43.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Catawba County shows median household income runs about $67,864, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Catawba County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,392 students), Oxford Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bunker Hill High, roughly 2.5 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oxford Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oxford Elementary has decreased 9%, going from 596 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 69% to 58%.

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