Wingate Elementary

Wingate Elementary, an intimate elementary campus in Wingate, North Carolina, one of the schools within Union County Public Schools, works with 394 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 52 schools in Union County Public Schools (41,272 students total), Wingate Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Wingate Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 32% Black, 13% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Wingate Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Union County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wingate 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 58.8%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Union County put median household income runs about $102,900, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Union County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,934 students), of which Wingate Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Forest Hills High, around 2.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Wingate Elementary. On composite proficiency, Wingate Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Wingate Elementary's enrollment has declined 30% since 2018, when it stood at 565 (now 394). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 36% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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