Ayden Elementary

Ayden Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school in Ayden, North Carolina, part of Pitt County Schools. The school hosts 656 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Ayden Elementary is one of 40 schools operated by Pitt County Schools, a district that teaches 24,470 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ayden Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% White, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

In terms of school funding signals, Ayden Elementary reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ayden Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +15.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Pitt County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,188 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Pitt County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,202 students), of which Ayden Elementary is one.

Ayden Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ayden Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 52.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 739 students in 2018 compared to 656 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 42% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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