Ed V Baldwin Elementary

Ed V Baldwin Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Hope Mills, North Carolina, run under Cumberland County Schools, caters to 634 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 36% bigger than typical.

Cumberland County Schools runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 49,002 students. Ed V Baldwin Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Ed V Baldwin Elementary records that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 16% White, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 38% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ed V Baldwin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of -10.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cumberland County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Cumberland County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), Ed V Baldwin Elementary is one campus in the mix.

South View Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ed V Baldwin Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 778 students in 2018 compared to 634 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 16% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.