Central Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary school in Eden, North Carolina, Central Elementary instructs 521 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Rockingham County Schools.

Within Rockingham County Schools, which oversees 23 schools and 11,114 students, Central Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Central Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 28% Black, 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Rockingham County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Central Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.9%; this one delivers 41.0%.

In the surrounding community, Rockingham County reports that median household earnings sit near $57,053, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Rockingham County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,299 students), of which Central Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: John M Morehead High, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Central Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Central Elementary's enrollment has expanded 35% since 2018, when it stood at 385 (now 521). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 56% to 45%.

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