College Lakes Elementary

College Lakes Elementary, a moderately sized elementary school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, run under Cumberland County Schools, educates 459 students, covering grades K through 5.

Cumberland County Schools comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 49,002 students; College Lakes Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, College Lakes Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 12% White, 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 38% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, College Lakes Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 98% 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, Cumberland County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, College Lakes Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Around the school, Cumberland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. College Lakes Elementary is one of 89 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students).

Warrenwood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), College Lakes Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. College Lakes Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 459). White enrollment moved from 18% to 12% across the same window.

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