C. G. Credle Elementary

C. G. Credle Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary campus in Oxford, North Carolina, one of the schools within Granville County Schools, enrolls 327 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 30% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Granville County Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 6,402 students. C. G. Credle Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, C. G. Credle Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 17% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), C. G. Credle Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.7%.

In the broader community, Granville County reports that median household income runs about $71,111, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. C. G. Credle Elementary is one of 20 public schools in Granville County (combined enrollment of about 8,376 students).

Granville Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts C. G. Credle Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 371 students in 2018 compared to 327 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 73% to 61% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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