Rankin Elementary

Rankin Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Greensboro, North Carolina, run under Guilford County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 673 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Rankin Elementary sits 44% above that benchmark.

Within Guilford County Schools, which oversees 123 schools and 68,535 students, Rankin Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rankin Elementary reports that Black students make up the majority at 56%; the rest looks like 24% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Guilford County as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Rankin Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Guilford County's rate of about 89%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rankin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of -13.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Guilford County) logs that median household income runs about $68,642, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Guilford County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), of which Rankin Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Aggie Academy, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rankin Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Rankin Elementary's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 792 (now 673). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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