Sandy Ridge Elementary School

Set in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina, Sandy Ridge Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus, part of Stokes County Schools. It instructs 213 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 54% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Stokes County Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 5,758 students. Sandy Ridge Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sandy Ridge Elementary School shows that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Stokes County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Sandy Ridge Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Stokes County (around 82%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sandy Ridge Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Stokes County) logs that median household earnings sit near $62,969, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Stokes County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,758 students), of which Sandy Ridge Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Lawsonville Elementary School, roughly 7.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Sandy Ridge Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

Sandy Ridge Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 15%: 185 students in 2018 compared to 213 in 2025.

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