Sugarloaf Elementary

Sugarloaf Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Hendersonville, North Carolina, overseen by Henderson County Schools, hosts 415 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Henderson County Schools, which oversees 23 schools and 12,619 students, Sugarloaf Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Sugarloaf Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 36% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Henderson County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Henderson County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sugarloaf 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 44.4%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Henderson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $68,187 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sugarloaf Elementary is one of 25 public schools in Henderson County (combined enrollment of about 13,572 students).

Nearest neighbor: Dana Elementary, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sugarloaf Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025.

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