Brunswick County Early College
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 42 points, placing it in North Carolina's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brunswick County Early College
As a tight-knit 9-12 campus in Bolivia, North Carolina, Brunswick County Early College teaches 332 students from grades 9 through 13, operated by Brunswick County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 761.
Brunswick County Early College is one of 20 schools operated by Brunswick County Schools, a district that hosts 13,561 students overall.
On demographics, Brunswick County Early College lists that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.
In terms of school funding signals, Brunswick County Early College shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.5:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Brunswick County Early College qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brunswick County Early College is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 90.5%, a residual of +41.9 points.
In the broader community, Brunswick County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,024, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Brunswick County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,069 students), Brunswick County Early College is one campus in the mix.
The COAST is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brunswick County Early College comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.
Brunswick County Early College operates from a rural location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Brunswick County Early College's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 357 (now 332). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.5:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 today.
On allk12, members of the Brunswick County Early College community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
Brunswick County at a glance
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