Rocky River Elementary

Rocky River Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school in Concord, North Carolina, one of the schools within Cabarrus County Schools. The school caters to 652 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Rocky River Elementary sits 40% bigger than that benchmark.

Rocky River Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Cabarrus County Schools, a district that teaches 35,568 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Rocky River Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 38%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 34% Black, 20% White, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, Rocky River Elementary reports 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cabarrus County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rocky River Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 58.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cabarrus County) reports that median household income runs about $89,005, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Cabarrus County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students), Rocky River Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Central Cabarrus High, around 1.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rocky River Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Rocky River Elementary's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 740 (now 652). The White share of enrollment decreased from 38% to 20% over that span.

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