Angier Elementary

Angier Elementary is one of the low-enrollment K-5 schools in Angier, North Carolina, operated by Harnett County Schools, with 376 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.

Angier Elementary is one of 29 schools operated by Harnett County Schools, a district that caters to 20,095 students overall.

On demographics, Angier Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 26% White, 16% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Harnett County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Angier Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harnett County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Angier Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 33.8%.

In the area at large, Harnett County reports that median household income runs about $71,287, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Harnett County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,611 students), Angier Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carolina Charter Academy, around 2.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Angier Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Angier Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 376 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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