Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary

Located at 2970 Legion Road, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that caters to 576 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Cumberland County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 23% above the state mean of about 467.

Across the 86 schools in Cumberland County Schools (49,002 students total), Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary lists that 61% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 13% White, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Cumberland County's rate of about 86%.

With demographic context factored in, Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cumberland County shows median household income runs about $61,291, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary is one of 89 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students).

The closest other public school is Cumberland Road Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 607 students in 2018 compared to 576 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 17% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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