Rea View Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary school in Waxhaw, North Carolina, Rea View Elementary enrolls 629 students from grades K through 5, operated by Union County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 35% above the state mean of about 467.

Union County Public Schools comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 41,272 students; Rea View Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rea View Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 72%; the rest breaks down as 16% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Rea View Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 5% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Union County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rea View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.2%, the actual is 89.4%, a residual of +12.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Union County indicate median household earnings sit near $102,900, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Union County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,934 students), of which Rea View Elementary is one.

Marvin Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rea View Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 87.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rea View Elementary's enrollment has grew 19% since 2018, when it stood at 528 (now 629). Over the same period, the White share declined from 80% to 72%.

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