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If you had an hour of school board time for Sedalia Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
535
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370192000847
Sedalia Elementary
6120 Burlington Road, Sedalia, NC 27342 · (336) 449-4711 · Guilford County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL535 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
529 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
47.6%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
58.2%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sedalia Elementary
Sedalia Elementary's state test result (52.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sedalia Elementary this school | 535 | 98.9% | 52.4% |
| Tommy's Road Elementary Goldsboro | 545 | 99.4% | 43.2% |
| John W Jones Elementary Wilson | 601 | 99.5% | 52.5% |
| Mary McArthur Elementary Fayetteville | 447 | 97.8% | 52.2% |
| Ed V Baldwin Elementary Hope Mills | 634 | 99.5% | 38.3% |
| Loyd E Auman Elementary Fayetteville | 495 | 99.2% | 47.9% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sedalia Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Guilford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.4% | #744 of 1,297 | #29 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #662 of 1,296 | #24 of 64 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #711 of 1,300 | #31 of 64 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 535 | #509 of 1,485 | #26 of 76 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #671 of 1,377 | #37 of 72 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.0% | #423 of 1,379 | #25 of 72 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.9% | #713 of 1,414 | #52 of 74 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.8% | #140 of 369 | #6 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
535
+78 (+17%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 433
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 13.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 535 | 36.4 | 14.7:1 | 99% (529) |
| 2023-24 | 526 | 36.7 | 14.3:1 | 99% (523) |
| 2022-23 | 550 | 37.6 | 14.7:1 | 62% (343) |
| 2020-21 | 457 | 34 | 13.4:1 | 45% (206) |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 30.5 | 15.3:1 | 59% (277) |
| 2015-16 | 479 | 26 | 18.4:1 | 63% (300) |
| 2010-11 | 483 | 29 | 16.7:1 | 44% (214) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 32 | 13.4:1 | 45% (193) |
| 1990-91 | 433 | 27 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sedalia Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (466 to 535); teachers up 19% (30.5 to 36.4).
About Sedalia Elementary
Sedalia Elementary is a public elementary school run by Guilford County Schools in Sedalia, North Carolina. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 535 students.
Guilford County Schools has 68,535 students in 123 schools, and Sedalia Elementary is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at Sedalia Elementary are Black (51%). The rest of enrollment is 21% White, 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Black share of Guilford County's population at about 34%. The diversity index for Sedalia Elementary is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.7:1. The average for elementary schools in North Carolina is about 14.9:1. About 99% of students at Sedalia Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Guilford County average 89%.
Among North Carolina public elementary schools, Sedalia Elementary outscored 45%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in North Carolina with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 48.6%. Sedalia Elementary scores 52.4%.
The county, Guilford County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $68,642 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Guilford County has 143 public schools with about 79,539 students, including Sedalia Elementary.
Eastern Guilford High, about 1.8 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 4. Sedalia Elementary is 3rd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Sedalia Elementary has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
The school's student count increased 17% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 14.7 students per teacher, compared with 13.4 in 2020-21.
The discussion board for Sedalia Elementary is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Guilford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
547,940
Census ACS
Median income
$68,642
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
143
79,539 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Guilford County Schools
- Northwest Guilford HighHigh · 2,055 students
- Grimsley HighHigh · 1,967 students
- Page HighHigh · 1,648 students
- Southwest Guilford HighHigh · 1,547 students
- James B Dudley HighHigh · 1,403 students
- Ben L. Smith High SchoolHigh · 1,348 students
Other Sedalia Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Sedalia Elementary. Sedalia Elementary is the largest of the 4.
- Sedalia ElementaryColumbus, OH · 530 students
- Sedalia Elementary SchoolMayfield, KY · 376 students
- Sedalia Elementary SchoolSEDALIA, CO · 212 students
Nearby schools
- Eastern Guilford High1.8 mi · 1,200
- Eastern Guilford Middle1.8 mi · 901
- McLeansville Elementary3.3 mi · 332
- Gate City Charter5.0 mi · 715
- Gibsonville Elementary5.5 mi · 595
- Alamance Elementary5.7 mi · 499
Frequently asked questions
About Sedalia ElementaryHow large is Sedalia Elementary?
Sedalia Elementary enrolls approximately 535 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Sedalia Elementary serve?
Sedalia Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Sedalia Elementary have?
Sedalia Elementary employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sedalia Elementary?
At Sedalia Elementary, the student body is approximately 21% White, 17% Hispanic, 51% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Sedalia Elementary?
Sedalia Elementary is overseen by Guilford County Schools in Guilford County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.