Union Cross Traditional Acad

As an average-sized K-5 school in Kernersville, North Carolina, Union Cross Traditional Acad enrolls 549 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 79 schools in total, collectively educating 51,745 students. Union Cross Traditional Acad is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Union Cross Traditional Acad logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 31% White, 23% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 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. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Forsyth County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Union Cross Traditional Acad tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Forsyth County put the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Union Cross Traditional Acad is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NC Leadership Charter Academy, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Union Cross Traditional Acad comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Union Cross Traditional Acad has ticked down 5%, going from 578 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 46% to 31% over that span.

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