Public school / Primary
Murphy Elementary
Murphy, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370078000322
- District
- Cherokee County Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Murphy Elementary is a public primary school in Murphy, North Carolina, run by Cherokee County Schools. It enrols 536 students — the 33087th 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
536
Teachers
42.0
Students per teacher
12.8
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 Cherokee 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.
- 1Murphy Elementary536 students
- 2Murphy High489 students
- 3Andrews Elementary350 students
- 4Murphy Middle316 students
- 5Ranger Elementary/Middle258 students
- 6Andrews High225 students
- 7Andrews Middle187 students
- 8Martins Creek Elementary/Mid184 students
- Enrollment+5.1%
- Teachers+23.5%
- Students per teacher−15.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.3%
Where this sits
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