Pickett Elementary School

Pickett Elementary School is an elementary campus of compact scale in Lexington, North Carolina, operated by Lexington City Schools, caters to 385 students in grades K through 5.

Lexington City Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,953 students. Pickett Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Pickett Elementary School shows that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 16% White, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Pickett Elementary School logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Davidson County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pickett Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -8.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Davidson County put median household earnings sit near $64,172, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pickett Elementary School is one of 49 public schools in Davidson County (combined enrollment of about 23,696 students).

Nearest neighbor: Davidson Charter Academy, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pickett Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pickett Elementary School has ticked down 4%, going from 399 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 24% to 16% across the same window.

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