Creekside Elementary

Located at 2790 Landscape Drive, in New Bern, North Carolina, Creekside Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school that works with 453 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Craven County Board of Education.

Across the 26 schools in Craven County Board of Education (12,152 students total), Creekside Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Creekside Elementary reports that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 16% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. Compared to Craven County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Creekside Elementary lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Craven County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Creekside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.3%, the actual is 79.8%, a residual of +9.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Craven County reports that median household earnings sit near $65,873, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Craven County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), of which Creekside Elementary is one.

Riverside Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Creekside Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creekside Elementary has shrank 16%, going from 538 students in 2018 to 453 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 74% to 67%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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