Benvenue Elementary

Located at 2700 Nicodemus Mile Road, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Benvenue Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that caters to 562 students (grades K through 5), operated by Nash County Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 20% above typical.

Nash County Public Schools runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 14,587 students. Benvenue Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Benvenue Elementary lists that 73% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Nash County as a whole is about 40% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Benvenue Elementary logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Benvenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Benvenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Nash County shows median household income runs about $62,426, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Benvenue Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Nash County (combined enrollment of about 14,285 students).

Englewood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Benvenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Benvenue Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 46.0%.

Benvenue Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Benvenue Elementary's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 593 (now 562). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.