Blue Creek Elementary

Blue Creek Elementary is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in Jacksonville, North Carolina, overseen by Onslow County Schools, educateing 498 students in grades K through 5.

Onslow County Schools comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 27,397 students; Blue Creek Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Blue Creek Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 17% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Blue Creek Elementary has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Blue Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Onslow County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Blue Creek Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Onslow County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,148, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Blue Creek Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Onslow County (combined enrollment of about 27,501 students).

Southwest High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Blue Creek Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Blue Creek Elementary's enrollment has rose 8% since 2018, when it stood at 459 (now 498). White enrollment moved from 54% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.