W M Irvin Elementary

Located at 1400 Gold Rush Drive, in Concord, North Carolina, W M Irvin Elementary is a roomy K-5 school that instructs 760 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Cabarrus County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 63% above typical.

Cabarrus County Schools runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 35,568 students. W M Irvin Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, W M Irvin Elementary shows that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 26% Black, 26% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Cabarrus County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cabarrus County's rate of about 56%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, W M Irvin Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cabarrus County shows median household earnings sit near $89,005, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cabarrus County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students), of which W M Irvin Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Concord Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W M Irvin Elementary. On composite proficiency, W M Irvin Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at W M Irvin Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 773 students in 2018 to 760 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 32% to 26% over that span.

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