Elementary · North Carolina
Bruce H. Tharrington Primary
Bruce H. Tharrington Primary, a public elementary school in Mount Airy, North Carolina: grades pre-k–2, 432 students, 14.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mount Airy City Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 432
- Teachers (FTE)
- 29.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.9
- Grades
- Pre-K–2
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 53% of elementary schools in North Carolina
Median 14.7 · 1,461 schools compared
More students per teacher than 54% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 55% of elementary schools in North Carolina
Median 455 · 1,469 schools compared
Larger than 53% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–2
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Distant town
- Run by
- Mount Airy City Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mount Airy City Schools.
Location
- Address
- 315 Culbert Street, Mount Airy, NC 27030
- Phone
- (336)789-9046
- City or town
- Mount Airy
- County
- Surry County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-K–5 | 473 | 13.5 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 217 | 13.2 | |
| 3–5 | 339 | 13.6 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 328 | 14.8 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 212 | 11.7 | |
Blue Ridge ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–7 | 223 | 13.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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