Aycock Elementary

Aycock Elementary operates as a modestly sized primary school in Henderson, North Carolina, overseen by Vance County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 376 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Vance County Schools comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 5,205 students; Aycock Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Aycock Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 34% Hispanic, 24% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 47% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably less Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Aycock Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Aycock Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Aycock Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Vance County) logs that median household income runs about $50,465, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Vance County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,495 students), of which Aycock Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Clarke Elementary, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Aycock Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 441 students in 2018 compared to 376 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 30% to 24% over that span.

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