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Public school / Primary

Union Elementary

Shelby, North Carolina

NCES ID
370090002289
District
Cleveland County Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Union Elementary is a public primary school in Shelby, North Carolina, run by Cleveland County Schools. It enrols 423 students — the 47681st 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

423students

47681st nationally, tied with 127

Teachers

31.0FTE

39703rd nationally, tied with 2,128

Students per teacher

13.6students

33954th nationally, tied with 919

Free or reduced-price lunch

80.1%percent

22007th nationally, tied with 72

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 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Kings Mountain High1,236 students
  2. 2Crest High1,114 students
  3. 3Burns High934 students
  4. 4Crest Middle849 students
  5. 5Shelby High825 students
  6. 6Burns Middle734 students
  7. 7Kings Mountain Middle712 students
  8. 8Shelby Middle630 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−17.1%
  • Teachers−8.8%
  • Students per teacher−9.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+17.1%
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Where this sits

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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.