W R Odell Elementary

As a high-enrollment elementary school in Concord, North Carolina, W R Odell Elementary hosts 1,052 students from grades 3 through 5, run under Cabarrus County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so W R Odell Elementary sits 125% bigger than that benchmark.

Cabarrus County Schools comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 35,568 students; W R Odell Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, W R Odell Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 29% White, 12% Black, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Cabarrus County as a whole is about 6% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting W R Odell Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 16% of students at W R Odell Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cabarrus County (around 56%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, W R Odell Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.9%; this one delivers 88.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cabarrus County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,005, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. W R Odell Elementary is one of 56 public schools in Cabarrus County (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students).

W R Odell Primary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts W R Odell Elementary at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 75.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. W R Odell Elementary's enrollment has climbed 32% since 2018, when it stood at 798 (now 1,052). Asian enrollment moved from 11% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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