Bearfield Primary

Bearfield Primary operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Ahoskie, North Carolina, run under Hertford County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 543 students spanning grades pre-K through 3.

Hertford County Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,367 students. Bearfield Primary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Bearfield Primary lists that 76% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 13% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Hertford County as a whole is about 56% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bearfield Primary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the area at large, Hertford County reports that median household earnings sit near $45,537, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bearfield Primary is one of 7 public schools in Hertford County (combined enrollment of about 2,367 students).

Ahoskie Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bearfield Primary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bearfield Primary has contracted 22%, going from 698 students in 2018 to 543 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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