Belmont Elementary School

Belmont Elementary School, a moderately sized primary school in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, one of the schools within Roanoke Rapids City Schools, educates 614 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% larger than the state mean of about 467.

Roanoke Rapids City Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,744 students; Belmont Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Belmont Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 29% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Belmont Elementary School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Belmont Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Halifax County) shows that median household earnings sit near $45,590, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Belmont Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Halifax County (combined enrollment of about 6,803 students).

Roanoke Rapids High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Belmont Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Belmont Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 726 (now 614). Class-load math has widened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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