Rocky River Elementary

Rocky River Elementary is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Mooresville, North Carolina, one of the schools within Mooresville Graded School District, with 460 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 2.

Across the 8 schools in Mooresville Graded School District (5,917 students total), Rocky River Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Rocky River Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Iredell County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Rocky River Elementary records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Iredell County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Iredell County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,419 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Iredell County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,906 students), Rocky River Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Mooresville Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rocky River Elementary.

Rocky River Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rocky River Elementary's enrollment has contracted 29% since 2018, when it stood at 651 (now 460). Over the same period, the White share fell from 80% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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