Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 8
Cove Creek Elementary, Vilas, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 289
- Teachers (FTE)
- 22.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.1
- Grades
- PK to 8
This school's ratio is 0.8 lower than the district figure of 13.9. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 930 Vanderpool Rd, Vilas, NC 28692
- Phone
- (828)297-2781
- District
- Watauga County Schools
- County
- Watauga County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 370483001936
School meals
- Free lunch
- 108
- Reduced-price lunch
- 11
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 11941.2% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Watauga County Schools
- Hardin Park Elementary 854 students
- Parkway Elementary 610 students
- Blowing Rock Elementary 409 students
- Valle Crucis Elementary 345 students
- Green Valley Elementary 292 students
- Mabel Elementary 140 students
- Bethel Elementary 128 students
- Watauga Virtual Academy 10 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.