Springmore Elementary

Springmore Elementary is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Shelby, North Carolina, operated by Cleveland County Schools, enrolling 618 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Springmore Elementary sits 32% above that benchmark.

Cleveland County Schools comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 14,504 students; Springmore Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Springmore Elementary lists that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 12% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Cleveland County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Springmore Elementary reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Springmore Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Springmore Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 74.7%, a residual of +26.3 points.

Across the wider county, Cleveland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,534 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Cleveland County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,682 students), of which Springmore Elementary is one.

Boiling Springs Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Springmore Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Springmore Elementary has expanded 8%, going from 571 students in 2018 to 618 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 66% to 72% over that span.

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