District No 7 Elementary

Located at 5721 Smithfield Road, in Wade, North Carolina, District No 7 Elementary is a compact elementary school that teaches 211 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Cumberland County Schools. That puts it 55% leaner than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Within Cumberland County Schools, which oversees 86 schools and 49,002 students, District No 7 Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, District No 7 Elementary shows that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 42% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting District No 7 Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), District No 7 Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.3%; this one delivers 57.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cumberland County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Cumberland County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), of which District No 7 Elementary is one.

Eastover-Central Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, District No 7 Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 275 students in 2018 compared to 211 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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