Public school / Primary
Bethware Elementary
Kings Mountain, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370090002707
- District
- Cleveland County Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bethware Elementary is a public primary school in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, run by Cleveland County Schools. It enrols 515 students — the 35490th largest of 2,773 public schools in North Carolina.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
515
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
15.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Cleveland County Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Kings Mountain High1,236 students
- 2Crest High1,114 students
- 3Burns High934 students
- 4Crest Middle849 students
- 5Shelby High825 students
- 6Burns Middle734 students
- 7Kings Mountain Middle712 students
- 8Shelby Middle630 students
- Enrollment+1.0%
- Teachers−2.9%
- Students per teacher+3.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.3%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory