Walkertown Elementary

Set in Walkertown, North Carolina, Walkertown Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. It caters to 633 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% larger than the state mean of about 467.

Within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, which oversees 79 schools and 51,745 students, Walkertown Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Walkertown Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Black, 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Forsyth County's rate of about 88%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Walkertown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate median household income runs about $67,165, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Walkertown Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Walkertown High, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Walkertown Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

Walkertown Elementary operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walkertown Elementary has decreased 16%, going from 751 students in 2018 to 633 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 61% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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