South End Elementary

Set in Reidsville, North Carolina, South End Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school, run under Rockingham County Schools. It caters to 355 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 24% smaller than typical.

Rockingham County Schools comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 11,114 students; South End Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, South End Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 20% White, 14% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, South End Elementary records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting South End Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South End Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.9%; this one comes in at 30.9%, -19.1 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Rockingham County indicate median household income runs about $57,053, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. South End Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Rockingham County (combined enrollment of about 12,299 students).

Reidsville High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, South End Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 40%: 254 students in 2018 compared to 355 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 36% to 20%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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