Sumner Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary school in Greensboro, North Carolina, Sumner Elementary enrolls 549 students from grades K through 5, operated by Guilford County Schools.

Within Guilford County Schools, which oversees 123 schools and 68,535 students, Sumner Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sumner Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Hispanic, 10% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 34% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Sumner Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Guilford County's rate of about 89%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sumner 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 44.0%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Guilford County put the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Guilford County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), of which Sumner Elementary is one.

Next Generation Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sumner Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sumner Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sumner Elementary has edged down 9%, going from 603 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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