Vandalia Elementary

Vandalia Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in Greensboro, North Carolina, one of the schools within Guilford County Schools. The school serves 257 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 45% below typical.

Guilford County Schools comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 68,535 students; Vandalia Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vandalia Elementary shows that 70% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Guilford County as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Vandalia Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 96% of students at Vandalia Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vandalia Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 44.5%.

Around the school, 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 Vandalia Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Triad Math and Science Academy, around 1.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vandalia Elementary. On composite proficiency, Vandalia Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vandalia Elementary has declined 7%, going from 276 students in 2018 to 257 in 2025.

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