Banner Elk, NC schools
Banner Elk’s public schools score above North Carolina’s averages: 52% of students are proficient in reading against 47.2% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.7%. Kids attend Banner Elk Elementary through grade 5, then Cranberry Middle or Avery Middle.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Banner Elk’s School Grade: B
The public schools Banner Elk’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 56% of North Carolina’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on North Carolina’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of North Carolina only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in North Carolina with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Banner Elk kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Above the state in reading
87% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
The district serving Banner Elk
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
All 1 school in Banner Elk
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Banner Elk kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Banner Elk’s district that are located in Elk Park and Newland. Which one depends on your address.