Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Lower Creek Elementary, Lenoir, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 396
- Teachers (FTE)
- 22.0
- Students per teacher
- 18.0
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.5. 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
- 630 Lower Creek Drive NE, Lenoir, NC 28645
- Phone
- (828)754-4022
- District
- Caldwell County Schools
- County
- Caldwell County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 370058000235
School meals
- Free lunch
- 393
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 39399.2% 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 Caldwell County Schools
- Hudson Elementary 665 students
- Granite Falls Elementary 647 students
- Gamewell Elementary 459 students
- Dudley Shoals Elementary 433 students
- Davenport A+ School 429 students
- Baton Elementary 357 students
- Sawmills Elementary 351 students
- Whitnel Elementary 330 students
- Collettsville School 321 students
- Valmead Elementary 305 students
- Happy Valley Elementary 234 students
- Kings Creek Elementary 153 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Lenoir
- Oak Hill Charter School Oak Hill Charter School
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.