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Enrollment
755
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINSTON SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370150000644
Vienna Elementary
1975 Chickasha Road, Pfafftown, NC 27040 · (336) 703-4178 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL755 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
233 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 4 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 131 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 139 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 129 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (129).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
75.5%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
79.5%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
78.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Vienna Elementary
Vienna Elementary's state test result (78.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna Elementary this school | 755 | 30.9% | 78.6% |
| Bain Elementary Mint Hill | 766 | 28.5% | 83.7% |
| Sycamore Creek Elementary Raleigh | 778 | 25.6% | 74.8% |
| EP Pearce Elementary Greensboro | 653 | 27.3% | 81.4% |
| Lakeshore Elementary Mooresville | 658 | 29.3% | 64.3% |
| Lincoln Heights Elementary Fuquay-Varina | 667 | 35.8% | 66.8% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Vienna Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.6% | #93 of 1,297 | #6 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.5% | #129 of 1,296 | #7 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #82 of 1,300 | #4 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 755 | #126 of 1,485 | #6 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #858 of 1,377 | #40 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.9% | #933 of 1,379 | #35 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.9% | #1,292 of 1,414 | #41 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.7% | #832 of 937 | #28 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
755
+17 (+2%) vs 2020
+88% since 1990-91, when it was 401
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 755 | 49.2 | 15.3:1 | 31% (233) |
| 2023-24 | 787 | 46.6 | 16.9:1 | 33% (257) |
| 2022-23 | 768 | 48 | 16.0:1 | 29% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 738 | 42 | 17.6:1 | 18% (133) |
| 2017-18 | 784 | 48.4 | 16.2:1 | 20% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 759 | 41 | 18.5:1 | 21% (159) |
| 2010-11 | 628 | 42 | 14.9:1 | 19% (118) |
| 2000-01 | 665 | 53 | 12.6:1 | 12% (81) |
| 1990-91 | 401 | 27 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vienna Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (784 to 755); teachers up 2% (48.4 to 49.2).
About Vienna Elementary
Vienna Elementary is a public elementary school in Pfafftown, North Carolina. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 755 students. Elementary schools in North Carolina average about 467 students, which makes this school 62% bigger than average.
Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools has a total of 79 schools and 51,745 students, Vienna Elementary among them.
About 66% of the student body at Vienna Elementary is White. Other groups make up 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 56% of Forsyth County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1. The school has 49.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Federal data show 31% of students (233) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 88% average for public schools in Forsyth County, the school's rate is lower.
Vienna Elementary earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 86% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
The model predicts 69.4% for a school in North Carolina with Vienna Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share. Vienna Elementary posts 78.6%.
The school's county is Forsyth County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $67,165 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Vienna Elementary shares Forsyth County with 87 other public schools.
Lewisville Middle, about 1.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Vienna Elementary is 2nd among 8 schools close by.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Vienna Elementary enrolled 738; in 2024-25, 755. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.3:1.
On allk12, people connected to Vienna Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
389,977
Census ACS
Median income
$67,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
55,902 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- West Forsyth HighHigh · 2,145 students
- Ronald W Reagan High SchoolHigh · 2,122 students
- R J Reynolds HighHigh · 1,759 students
- East Forsyth HighHigh · 1,647 students
- Parkland HighHigh · 1,569 students
- Mount Tabor High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
Other Vienna Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Vienna Elementary. Vienna Elementary is the largest of the 5.
- Vienna ElementaryVienna, VA · 357 students
- Vienna Elementary SchoolVienna, WV · 288 students
- VIENNA ELEM.VIENNA, MO · 216 students
- Vienna Elementary SchoolVienna, MD · 183 students
Nearby schools
- Lewisville Middle1.7 mi · 888
- Ronald W Reagan High School2.4 mi · 2,122
- Jefferson Elementary2.5 mi · 560
- Meadowlark Middle3.2 mi · 857
- Meadowlark Elementary3.2 mi · 827
- The Special Children's School3.2 mi · 98
Frequently asked questions
About Vienna ElementaryHow large is Vienna Elementary?
Vienna Elementary enrolls approximately 755 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Vienna Elementary serve?
Vienna Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Vienna Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Vienna Elementary is approximately 15.3:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Vienna Elementary?
At Vienna Elementary, the student body is approximately 66% White, 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Vienna Elementary?
Vienna Elementary is overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools in Forsyth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.