Scroggs Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary campus in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Scroggs Elementary serves 410 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 11,392 students. Scroggs Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Scroggs Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 14% Black, 14% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Scroggs Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Scroggs Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.7%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,089 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Orange County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,582 students), of which Scroggs Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Culbreth Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Scroggs Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Scroggs Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 65.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Scroggs Elementary's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 498 (now 410). White enrollment moved from 57% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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