New Town Elementary
Waxhaw, NC · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
New Town Elementary is a elementary school in Waxhaw, NC with 761 students enrolled and a 68% proficiency rate. Part of Union County Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
New Town Elementary is a elementary school located in Waxhaw, North Carolina. The school serves 761 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 68% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
New Town Elementary is part of the Union County Public Schools in North Carolina.
How This School Compares
New Town Elementary has 761 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Union County Public Schools (798 students). Its 68% proficiency rate is 14 percentage points above the district average of 53%. Compared to the North Carolina state average of 43%, the school performs 24 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
New Town Elementary has 761 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 68% of students at New Town Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
New Town Elementary is part of the Union County Public Schools in Waxhaw, North Carolina. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.