Pilot Elementary

Pilot Elementary, a moderately sized primary school in Greensboro, North Carolina, one of the schools within Guilford County Schools, serves 556 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 123 schools in Guilford County Schools (68,535 students total), Pilot Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Pilot Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 20% White, 14% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. 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 noticeably above Guilford County's rate of about 89%.

With demographic context factored in, Pilot Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 49.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Guilford County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Guilford County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), Pilot Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Sedgefield Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pilot Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

Pilot Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pilot Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 626 (now 556). The Black share of enrollment edged up from 36% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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