Rocky River Elementary

Rocky River Elementary is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in Monroe, North Carolina, overseen by Union County Public Schools, works with 536 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Union County Public Schools, which oversees 52 schools and 41,272 students, Rocky River Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Rocky River Elementary logs that 36% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 34% White, 22% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Rocky River Elementary has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Union County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rocky River Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of +15.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Union County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $102,900 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Union County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,934 students), of which Rocky River Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is ALA Monroe, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rocky River Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rocky River Elementary has fell 23%, going from 698 students in 2018 to 536 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 39% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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