Alderman Road Elementary

Alderman Road Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Fayetteville, North Carolina, part of Cumberland County Schools, with 655 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 40% bigger than typical.

Cumberland County Schools runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 49,002 students. Alderman Road Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Alderman Road Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 34% Black, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. Compared to Cumberland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Alderman Road Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Cumberland County's rate of about 86%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Alderman Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of +6.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cumberland County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,291, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Cumberland County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), of which Alderman Road Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gray's Creek Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alderman Road Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 51.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Alderman Road Elementary's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 655). Black enrollment moved from 28% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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