Aberdeen Elementary

Aberdeen Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Aberdeen, North Carolina, run under Moore County Schools, educateing 675 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 45% above typical.

Moore County Schools runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,085 students. Aberdeen Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Aberdeen Elementary shows that 33% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 22% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Aberdeen Elementary logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Moore County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, Aberdeen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of -5.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Moore County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,080 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Moore County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,708 students), of which Aberdeen Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Southern Middle, around 2.1 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Aberdeen Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 69.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Aberdeen Elementary has rose 108%, going from 324 students in 2018 to 675 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 41% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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