South Fork Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary school in Winston Salem, North Carolina, South Fork Elementary instructs 503 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools comprises 79 schools with combined enrollment of 51,745 students; South Fork Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, South Fork Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 29% Hispanic, 11% White, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Forsyth County's rate of about 88%.

With demographic context factored in, South Fork Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 35.2%, a residual of -13.3 points.

In the area at large, Forsyth County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Forsyth County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), of which South Fork Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sherwood Forest Elementary, around 1.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, South Fork Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. South Fork Elementary's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 561 (now 503). White enrollment moved from 16% to 11% across the same window.

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