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How has Cumberland Mills Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
573
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001100410
Cumberland Mills Elementary
2576 Hope Mills Road, Fayetteville, NC 28306 · (910) 424-4536 · Cumberland County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL573 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
554 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 112 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (112) is 60% larger than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
41.3%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
42.9%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cumberland Mills Elementary
Cumberland Mills Elementary's state test result (41.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland Mills Elementary this school | 573 | 96.7% | 41.6% |
| Ed V Baldwin Elementary Hope Mills | 634 | 99.5% | 38.3% |
| Guilford Elementary Greensboro | 623 | 99.5% | 35.4% |
| Lake Rim Elementary Fayetteville | 656 | 99.4% | 47.4% |
| Isenberg Elementary Salisbury | 509 | 95.3% | 43.5% |
| West Oxford Elementary Oxford | 520 | 97.5% | 37.8% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cumberland Mills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.6% | #1,050 of 1,297 | #34 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #1,089 of 1,296 | #33 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #899 of 1,300 | #34 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 573 | #407 of 1,485 | #13 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #1,240 of 1,377 | #44 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #467 of 1,379 | #22 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.7% | #1,009 of 1,414 | #41 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.7% | #524 of 937 | #14 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
573
+27 (+5%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 739
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 573 | 33.1 | 17.3:1 | 97% (554) |
| 2023-24 | 551 | 34.5 | 16.0:1 | 99% (548) |
| 2022-23 | 572 | 40.1 | 14.3:1 | 99% (569) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 39 | 14.0:1 | 99% (543) |
| 2017-18 | 649 | 43 | 15.1:1 | 99% (643) |
| 2015-16 | 642 | 41 | 15.7:1 | 100% (641) |
| 2010-11 | 623 | 42 | 14.8:1 | 68% (423) |
| 2000-01 | 728 | 40 | 18.2:1 | 57% (418) |
| 1990-91 | 739 | 36 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cumberland Mills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (649 to 573); teachers down 23% (43 to 33.1).
About Cumberland Mills Elementary
Cumberland Mills Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The school counts 573 students across pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in North Carolina is about 467 students.
Cumberland County Schools has 86 schools and 49,002 students, and Cumberland Mills Elementary is one of those schools.
Black students are the majority at Cumberland Mills Elementary, with 53% of enrollment. The school is also 18% Hispanic, 14% White, and 12% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 38%. Cumberland Mills Elementary's diversity index is 65%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 17.3:1, with 33.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 2.4 students per teacher above the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 97% of enrollment. That rate is above the 86% average among public schools in Cumberland County.
allk12 grades Cumberland Mills Elementary a C-. The grade compares the school only with North Carolina public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Cumberland Mills Elementary's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (41.6%) and its predicted rate (49.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of North Carolina schools.
Census estimates describe Cumberland County this way: the median household income is $61,291, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Besides Cumberland Mills Elementary, Cumberland County has 88 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, Sherwood Park Elementary is the closest, at about 1.2 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Cumberland Mills Elementary. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Cumberland Mills Elementary ranks 7th on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Federal data show a 5% enrollment increase, from 546 in 2020-21 to 573 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 14.0:1 to 17.3:1.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Fayetteville
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
- Westover HighHigh · 1,234 students
- Terry Sanford HighHigh · 1,201 students
Nearby schools
- Sherwood Park Elementary1.2 mi · 335
- John R Griffin Middle1.2 mi · 1,024
- E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary1.4 mi · 782
- C Wayne Collier Elementary2.1 mi · 532
- J W Coon Elementary2.2 mi · 186
- Mary McArthur Elementary2.2 mi · 447
Frequently asked questions
About Cumberland Mills ElementaryHow large is Cumberland Mills Elementary?
Cumberland Mills Elementary enrolls approximately 573 students in grades PK-05.
Is Cumberland Mills Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cumberland Mills Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cumberland Mills Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cumberland Mills Elementary is approximately 17.3:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cumberland Mills Elementary?
At Cumberland Mills Elementary, the student body is approximately 14% White, 18% Hispanic, 53% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Cumberland Mills Elementary in?
Cumberland Mills Elementary is part of Cumberland County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.