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If you had an hour of school board time for Virginia Cross Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
494
Elementary
DISTRICT 389 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHATHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370075002815
Virginia Cross Elementary
234 Cross School Road, Siler City, NC 27344 · (919) 742-4279 · Chatham County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
12.1:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
491 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 | 33 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 33% smaller than its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
31.3%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
51.3%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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
42.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Virginia Cross Elementary
Virginia Cross Elementary's state test result (42.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Cross Elementary this school | 494 | 99.4% | 42.2% |
| Easton Elementary School Winston Salem | 504 | 99.4% | 27.3% |
| Benton Heights Elementary Monroe | 451 | 99.3% | 48.5% |
| Forest Park Elementary Winston Salem | 522 | 99.4% | 39.5% |
| Oaklawn Language Academy Charlotte | 531 | 97.4% | 67.1% |
| Devonshire Elementary Charlotte | 550 | 99.5% | 31.6% |
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 Virginia Cross Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Chatham County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #1,041 of 1,297 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #866 of 1,296 | #11 of 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #1,161 of 1,300 | #11 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #629 of 1,485 | #5 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #97 of 1,377 | #2 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.9% | #1,052 of 1,379 | #7 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #294 of 1,414 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.2% | #441 of 937 | #5 of 9 |
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
494
+18 (+4%) vs 2020
-8% since 2010-11, when it was 539
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 494 | 41 | 12.1:1 | 99% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 461 | 39.8 | 11.6:1 | 97% (447) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 38.6 | 11.8:1 | 93% (425) |
| 2020-21 | 476 | 46 | 10.3:1 | 80% (382) |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 48.8 | 11.8:1 | 95% (545) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 48 | 12.3:1 | 94% (557) |
| 2010-11 | 539 | 42 | 12.8:1 | 92% (498) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Virginia Cross Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (576 to 494); teachers down 16% (48.8 to 41).
About Virginia Cross Elementary
Virginia Cross Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Siler City, North Carolina. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 494 students.
Enrollment across the 21 schools in Chatham County Schools totals 8,987 students.
Federal enrollment data show Virginia Cross Elementary is 70% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 20% Black, 7% White, and 3% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 56 points above the 14% share among Chatham County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 47%.
Virginia Cross Elementary has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 12.1:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1, 2.8 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 99% at Virginia Cross Elementary. On average, public schools in Chatham County report 74%.
Virginia Cross Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 20% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 48.5% for Virginia Cross Elementary. The school posts 42.2%, 6.3 points below the prediction.
In the surrounding county, Chatham County, median household income comes to about $94,317, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 25, with about 10,374 students.
Of the public schools around it, Virginia Cross Elementary is closest to Chatham Middle, about 0.5 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 42.9%; Virginia Cross Elementary's is 42.2%, ranking 3rd of 5.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Fringe: in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment rose by 4% across 4 years, from 476 in 2020-21 to 494 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 10.3:1 in 2020-21 to 12.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Chatham County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
80,151
Census ACS
Median income
$94,317
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
10,374 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chatham County Schools
- Seaforth HighHigh · 1,088 students
- Jordan-Matthews HighHigh · 848 students
- Margaret B. Pollard MiddleMiddle · 736 students
- Chatham Grove ElementaryElementary · 683 students
- Northwood HighHigh · 634 students
- Siler City ElementaryElementary · 591 students
Other schools in Siler City
- Jordan-Matthews HighHigh · 848 students
- Chatham CharterCombined · 591 students
- Siler City ElementaryElementary · 591 students
- Chatham MiddleMiddle · 513 students
- Silk Hope SchoolElementary · 281 students
- Chatham Early CollegeHigh · 113 students
Nearby schools
- Chatham Middle0.5 mi · 513
- Jordan-Matthews High0.9 mi · 848
- ONE Academy1.6 mi · 35
- Chatham County Schools Virtual Academy1.6 mi · 9
- Chatham Early College1.6 mi · 113
- Chatham Charter3.0 mi · 591
Frequently asked questions
About Virginia Cross ElementaryHow large is Virginia Cross Elementary?
Virginia Cross Elementary enrolls approximately 494 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Virginia Cross Elementary serve?
Virginia Cross Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Virginia Cross Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Virginia Cross Elementary is approximately 12.1:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Virginia Cross Elementary?
Student demographics at Virginia Cross Elementary are roughly 7% White, 70% Hispanic, 20% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Virginia Cross Elementary public or private?
Virginia Cross Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chatham County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.