Brinson Memorial Elementary

Located at 319 Neuse Forest Avenue, in New Bern, North Carolina, Brinson Memorial Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community that hosts 446 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Craven County Board of Education.

Brinson Memorial Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Craven County Board of Education, a district that hosts 12,152 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Brinson Memorial Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 19% Black, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Craven County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brinson Memorial Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.1%; this one delivers 57.9%.

Zooming out to the county, Craven County reports that median household earnings sit near $65,873, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Craven County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), of which Brinson Memorial Elementary is one.

Riverside Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brinson Memorial Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Brinson Memorial Elementary's enrollment has contracted 36% since 2018, when it stood at 692 (now 446). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 62% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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