Cullowhee Valley School - Cullowhee, North Carolina/NC

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Cullowhee Valley School

240 Wisdom Drive, Cullowhee, NC, 28723-8500 -

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Definition of Terms

Cullowhee Valley School

School Level

Primary school

Grades Offered

Grades KG - 8

County

Jackson County, NC

Students & Faculty

Total Students

626 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

45 teachers

Students by Grade

Kind - 83 students

Grade 1 - 79 students

Grade 2 - 72 students

Grade 3 - 71 students

Grade 4 - 64 students

Grade 5 - 64 students

Grade 6 - 48 students

Grade 7 - 70 students

Grade 8 - 75 students

This School

(NC) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:14

1:15

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NC) School Average

% American Indian	2%	2%
% Asian	1%	2%
% Hispanic	5%	10%
% Black	3%	33%
% White	88%	54%
% Unknown	1 %	2%

Additional Student Information

This School

(NC) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

30%

39%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

13%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(NC) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Jackson County s School District

This School's Agency

(NC) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	7	7
Number of Students Managed	3,715 students	3,192 students
District Total Revenue	$33,081,000	$27,390,000
District Expenditure	$30,698,000	$27,412,000
District Revenue / Student	$8,905	$8,581
District Expenditure / Student	$8,263	$8,588

Culowhee Valley school's fall festival (Western Carolinian)
posted on November 4, 2009 at 01:45:18 pm
Recently, the Cullowhee Valley School hosted its annual Fall Festival. Every year, Cullowhee Valley Fall Festival hosts over 700 children and their parents, entertaining them with food, games, and educational booths.
News briefs (Smoky Mountain News)
posted on October 21, 2009 at 02:37:48 pm
Trantham is executive chef at Grove Park Denny Trantham, who lives in Canton and is from Haywood County, has been named executive chef for the The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa.
Students Work with Local Schoolchildren from Non-English Speaking Homes (Western Carolinian)
posted on October 13, 2009 at 09:15:18 am
Amber Jones practiced her Spanish, which she was studying in a Western Carolina University course, and spoke in English as she recently helped a Cullowhee Valley School first-grader from a Spanish-speaking family with her reading and writing skills.
Districts' top teachers give something extra (Asheville Citizen-Times)
posted on September 28, 2009 at 04:18:47 am
ASHEVILLE — Every year before school begins, Rhonda Sizemore visits the homes of each of her students. It's her way of making sure the school year starts off right.
Wedding day tragedy has 2 links to Western North Carolina (Asheville Citizen-Times)
posted on September 15, 2009 at 04:19:03 am
RALEIGH — A wedding day became a day of mourning for a bride-to-be who got her start teaching in the mountains before moving east to join her fiancé. Christopher Raynor, 28, died just hours before he would have stood at the altar with former Cullowhee Valley School second-grade teacher Karen Taylor.

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About This Zip Code (28723)

School Zip (28723)

(NC) State Average

Population (Approximate)

8,655 people

7,780,958 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

43%

24%

Population Average Age

23 years old

35 years old

Average Household size

2.2 persons

2.4 persons

Median Household Income

$30,383

$39,726

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

4.9 rooms

5.3 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

31 years old

32 years old

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Zipcode (28723)

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% Owning / % Renting

58% / 42%

66% / 34%

Nearby Schools:

1. Blue Ridge School - 291 students - 2.2 mi. away - view location
2. Summit Charter - 172 students - 4.6 mi. away - view location
3. Highlands School - 428 students - 7.3 mi. away - view location
4. Cullasaja Elementary School - 187 students - 9.3 mi. away - view location

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