Brogden Primary

As an average-sized K-5 school in Dudley, North Carolina, Brogden Primary serves 689 students from grades pre-K through 4, operated by Wayne County Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 48% bigger than typical.

Wayne County Public Schools runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 17,150 students. Brogden Primary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Brogden Primary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 28% Black, 8% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Brogden Primary has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Brogden Primary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brogden Primary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household income runs about $59,733, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Brogden Primary is one of 36 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students).

Southern Wayne High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Brogden Primary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brogden Primary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 22%: 881 students in 2018 compared to 689 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 55% to 60% over that span.

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