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Elkin, North Carolina - 1 schools
90
Total Enrollment
1
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Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Appalachian State Univ Academy at Elkin operates 1 public schools serving 90 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Carolina. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Surry County.
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Appalachian State Univ Academy at Elkin accounts for 100.0% of all Appalachian State Univ Academy at Elkin student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Appalachian State Univ Academy at Elkin a distant remainder — means Appalachian State Univ Academy at Elkin-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Appalachian State Univ Academy at Elkin has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 61.1% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Comparisons are relative to Appalachian State Univ Academy at Elkin's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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