Crain's Creek Middle

Located at 4631 Union Church Rd, in Carthage, North Carolina, Crain's Creek Middle is a small middle-grades school that serves 481 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Moore County Schools. That puts it 20% leaner than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Across the 23 schools in Moore County Schools (13,085 students total), Crain's Creek Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Crain's Creek Middle reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 22% Black, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Crain's Creek Middle lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Crain's Creek Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Moore County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Crain's Creek Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +2.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Moore County) shows that median household earnings sit near $86,080, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Crain's Creek Middle is one of 27 public schools in Moore County (combined enrollment of about 14,708 students).

Vass-Lakeview Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Crain's Creek Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crain's Creek Middle ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Crain's Creek Middle's enrollment has rose 23% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 481). White enrollment moved from 66% to 53% across the same window.

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