Windsor Elementary

Set in Windsor, North Carolina, Windsor Elementary is a cozy K-5 school, part of Bertie County Schools. It caters to 336 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Windsor Elementary sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.

Windsor Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Bertie County Schools, a district that enrolls 1,819 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Windsor Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (81%). Other groups include 10% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Windsor Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 50.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Bertie County shows median household earnings sit near $48,750, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Bertie County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,819 students), Windsor Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bertie Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.8 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Windsor Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Windsor Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 412 (now 336). The White share of enrollment edged down from 17% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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