Clyde Erwin Elementary

Located at 323 New River Dr, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Clyde Erwin Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary-level community that serves 283 students (grades K through 5), run under Onslow County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 467.

Within Onslow County Schools, which oversees 39 schools and 27,397 students, Clyde Erwin Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Clyde Erwin Elementary shows that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 25% White, 23% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Onslow County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Clyde Erwin Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at Clyde Erwin Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Onslow County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Clyde Erwin Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.0%; this one delivers 46.8%.

Around the school, census data for Onslow County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,148 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Onslow County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,501 students), Clyde Erwin Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Z.E.C.A. School of Arts and Technology is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Clyde Erwin Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clyde Erwin Elementary has decreased 33%, going from 421 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 26% to 40%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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