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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Ray Childers Elementary, Hickory, NC

Ray Childers Elementary is a public elementary school in Hickory, part of Burke County Schools. It enrolled 460 students in 2024-25, with 15.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
460
Teachers (FTE)
29.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 0.9 lower than the district figure of 16.8. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.9
District16.8
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3

School details

Address
1183 Cape Hickory Road, Hickory, NC 28601
Phone
(828)324-1340
District
Burke County Schools
County
Burke County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Midsize
NCES school ID
370048002431
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
457
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
45799.3% 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 Burke County Schools

Elementary schools elsewhere in Hickory

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.