E B Frink Middle

Set in La Grange, North Carolina, E B Frink Middle is a cozy middle school, overseen by Lenoir County Public Schools. It caters to 488 students across grades 6 through 8.

Lenoir County Public Schools comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 8,331 students; E B Frink Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, E B Frink Middle lists that 42% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 33% White, 20% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, E B Frink Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 44.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lenoir County put median household earnings sit near $45,143, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Lenoir County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,480 students), E B Frink Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: La Grange Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, E B Frink Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at E B Frink Middle has declined 3%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 39% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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