Robinson Elementary

Robinson Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus in Gastonia, North Carolina, overseen by Gaston County Schools. The school teaches 420 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 56 schools in Gaston County Schools (30,995 students total), Robinson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Robinson Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 31% Black, 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

Looking at school resources, Robinson Elementary lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Robinson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Gaston County's rate of about 85%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Robinson 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 51.4%.

In the broader community, Gaston County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,478, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Gaston County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,898 students), Robinson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hawks Nest STEAM Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Robinson Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Robinson Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.6%.

Robinson Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Robinson Elementary's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 449 (now 420). The White share of enrollment edged down from 58% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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