Public school / Primary
Mount Pleasant Elementary School
Ferguson, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370495001978
- District
- Wilkes County Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Mount Pleasant Elementary School is a public primary school in Ferguson, North Carolina, run by Wilkes County Schools. It enrols 234 students — the 74218th 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
234
Teachers
14.0
Students per teacher
16.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
98.7%
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 Wilkes 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.
- 1Wilkes Central High School752 students
- 2Millers Creek Elementary School734 students
- 3West Wilkes High School628 students
- 4North Wilkes High School625 students
- 5Central Wilkes Middle School576 students
- 6East Wilkes High School495 students
- 7Mountain View Elementary School484 students
- 8West Wilkes Middle School468 students
- Enrollment−54.1%
- Teachers−58.8%
- Students per teacher+10.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+44.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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