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Enrollment
515
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CITY SCHOOLS·NCES 370072000294
Carrboro Elementary
400 Shelton St, Carrboro, NC 27510 · (919) 968-3652 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL515 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 72% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
168 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
68.7%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
73.9%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.9%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Carrboro Elementary
Carrboro Elementary's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrboro Elementary this school | 515 | 32.6% | 72.0% |
| River Park Elementary Hillsborough | 523 | 37.5% | 69.8% |
| Jeffreys Grove Elementary Raleigh | 543 | 31.5% | 79.4% |
| Brassfield Elementary Raleigh | 613 | 41.9% | 54.8% |
| Torrence Creek Elementary Huntersville | 653 | 39.5% | 69.5% |
| McAlpine Elementary Charlotte | 535 | 29.9% | 71.7% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Carrboro Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #187 of 1,297 | #6 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #248 of 1,296 | #9 of 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.7% | #156 of 1,300 | #6 of 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 515 | #567 of 1,485 | #5 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #205 of 1,377 | #10 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.3% | #794 of 1,379 | #17 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.6% | #1,278 of 1,414 | #10 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.0% | #249 of 369 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
515
+13 (+3%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 589
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 515 | 40 | 12.9:1 | 33% (168) |
| 2023-24 | 506 | 39 | 13.0:1 | 33% (169) |
| 2022-23 | 501 | 38.2 | 13.1:1 | 35% (176) |
| 2020-21 | 502 | 40 | 12.6:1 | 27% (136) |
| 2017-18 | 486 | 35.8 | 13.6:1 | 30% (146) |
| 2015-16 | 500 | 37 | 13.5:1 | 31% (153) |
| 2010-11 | 532 | 39 | 13.6:1 | 38% (203) |
| 2000-01 | 509 | 41 | 12.4:1 | 32% (164) |
| 1990-91 | 589 | 40 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carrboro Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (486 to 515); teachers up 12% (35.8 to 40).
About Carrboro Elementary
Carrboro Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school for students in Carrboro, North Carolina. Its 515 students are spread across pre-K through 5.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, which runs Carrboro Elementary, has 20 schools and 11,392 students.
A majority of students at Carrboro Elementary, 56%, are White. The remaining shares are 34% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. Orange County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at Carrboro Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 57%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.9:1, with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in North Carolina, the typical ratio is 14.9:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Carrboro Elementary is 33%.
The allk12 Grade for Carrboro Elementary is B+. Compared with North Carolina public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 72% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Carrboro Elementary falls in the middle 80% of North Carolina schools: 72.0% actual against 68.9% predicted.
Census estimates describe Orange County this way: median household income is about $90,089, about 62% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 38 public schools in Orange County, with a combined enrollment of about 19,582.
The next-closest public school is Northside Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Carrboro Elementary. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Carrboro Elementary is 2nd of 7 on proficiency.
NCES assigns Carrboro Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students climbed from 502 to 515 over 4 years.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
149,678
Census ACS
Median income
$90,089
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
62%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
19,582 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
- Chapel Hill HighHigh · 1,608 students
- East Chapel Hill HighHigh · 1,419 students
- Carrboro HighHigh · 885 students
- Smith MiddleMiddle · 763 students
- McDougle MiddleMiddle · 659 students
- Culbreth MiddleMiddle · 632 students
Nearby schools
- Northside Elementary0.9 mi · 412
- Virtual Academy School1.0 mi · 39
- Phoenix Academy High1.0 mi · 27
- FPG Elementary1.1 mi · 536
- McDougle Middle1.5 mi · 659
- McDougle Elementary1.5 mi · 497
Frequently asked questions
About Carrboro ElementaryHow many students attend Carrboro Elementary?
Carrboro Elementary enrolls approximately 515 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Carrboro Elementary serve?
Carrboro Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Carrboro Elementary?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Carrboro Elementary.
How diverse is Carrboro Elementary?
Carrboro Elementary reports a student body of 56% White, 34% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Carrboro Elementary?
Carrboro Elementary is overseen by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.