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Public school / Primary

North Wilkesboro Elementary School

North Wilkesboro, North Carolina

NCES ID
370495001982
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

North Wilkesboro Elementary School is a public primary school in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, run by Wilkes County Schools. It enrols 307 students — the 64645th largest of 2,773 public schools in North Carolina.

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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

307students

64645th nationally, tied with 157

Teachers

21.0FTE

62587th nationally, tied with 2,266

Students per teacher

14.6students

43668th nationally, tied with 927

Free or reduced-price lunch

99.0%percent

5411th nationally, tied with 141

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.

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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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Wilkes Central High School752 students
  2. 2Millers Creek Elementary School734 students
  3. 3West Wilkes High School628 students
  4. 4North Wilkes High School625 students
  5. 5Central Wilkes Middle School576 students
  6. 6East Wilkes High School495 students
  7. 7Mountain View Elementary School484 students
  8. 8West Wilkes Middle School468 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: North Carolina median across 2,773 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−39.8%
  • Teachers−38.2%
  • Students per teacher−3.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+44.7%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.