Coastal Elementary

Coastal Elementary is one of the substantial elementary campuss in Holly Ridge, North Carolina, overseen by Onslow County Schools, with 833 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 78% bigger than the state mean of about 467.

Onslow County Schools runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 27,397 students. Coastal Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Coastal Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Coastal Elementary shows 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Onslow County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Coastal Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 71.3%, a residual of +2.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Onslow County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,148 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Onslow County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,501 students), Coastal Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dixon Middle, roughly 3.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Coastal Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coastal Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 67.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Inside the community feed, members of the Coastal Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.