Silk Hope School

Set in Siler City, North Carolina, Silk Hope School is a compact elementary campus, overseen by Chatham County Schools. It works with 281 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Silk Hope School sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 21 schools in Chatham County Schools (8,987 students total), Silk Hope School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Silk Hope School lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Silk Hope School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Chatham County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Silk Hope School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 59.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Chatham County put the typical household earns roughly $94,317 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Chatham County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,374 students), of which Silk Hope School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jordan-Matthews High, around 6.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Silk Hope School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 73% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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