Eastern Wayne Middle

Eastern Wayne Middle operates as a small middle-grades school in Goldsboro, North Carolina, operated by Wayne County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 427 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 29% smaller than typical.

Across the 33 schools in Wayne County Public Schools (17,150 students total), Eastern Wayne Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Eastern Wayne Middle records that the largest single group is Black, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 13% White, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Eastern Wayne Middle lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Eastern Wayne Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Eastern Wayne Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.1%; this one delivers 48.4%.

Across the wider county, Wayne County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,733, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Eastern Wayne Middle is one of 36 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students).

The closest other public school is Wayne STEM Academy, roughly 1.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Eastern Wayne Middle comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.5%.

Eastern Wayne Middle operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Eastern Wayne Middle's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 566 (now 427). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 27% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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