South Elementary

Set in Mooresville, North Carolina, South Elementary is a medium-sized primary school, run under Mooresville Graded School District. It educates 466 students across grades pre-K through 2.

Mooresville Graded School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,917 students; South Elementary is among them.

On demographics, South Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 63% of students at South Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Iredell County) records that the typical household earns roughly $81,419 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Iredell County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,906 students), of which South Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Mooresville Middle, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Elementary has decreased 18%, going from 566 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 55% to 45%.

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