D S Johnson Elementary

Located at 600 Fairview Road, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, D S Johnson Elementary is a tight-knit elementary-level community that teaches 206 students (grades 3 through 5), run under Edgecombe County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 467.

D S Johnson Elementary is one of 19 schools operated by Edgecombe County Public Schools, a district that hosts 6,310 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, D S Johnson Elementary shows that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Edgecombe County as a whole is about 56% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, D S Johnson Elementary has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at D S Johnson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Edgecombe County) reports that median household earnings sit near $51,265, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Edgecombe County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,573 students), D S Johnson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is D S Johnson Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

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