Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Union Elementary, Shelby, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 413
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.8
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 1.8 lower than the district figure of 15.6. 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
- 1440 Union Church Road, Shelby, NC 28150
- Phone
- (704)476-8250
- District
- Cleveland County Schools
- County
- Cleveland County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 370090002289
School meals
- Free lunch
- 410
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 41099.3% 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 Cleveland County Schools
- Elizabeth Elementary 649 students
- Springmore Elementary 618 students
- Boiling Springs Elementary 558 students
- Bethware Elementary 548 students
- Township Three Elementary 540 students
- Fallston Elementary 502 students
- Jefferson Elementary 439 students
- James Love Elementary 376 students
- Washington Elementary 376 students
- Grover Elementary 323 students
- West Elementary 289 students
- Casar Elementary 275 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.