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E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary
E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary, a roomy K-5 school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, run under Cumberland County Schools, hosts 782 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% bigger than the state mean of about 467.
E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary is one of 86 schools operated by Cumberland County Schools, a district that teaches 49,002 students overall.
Demographically, E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 42% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school reports having 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Cumberland County's rate of about 86%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 64.9%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cumberland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cumberland County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: John R Griffin Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 58.5%.
E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary operates from a residential location.
Trend over the last 7 years. E Melvin Honeycutt Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 888 (now 782). Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 23% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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