Elizabethtown Middle

Located at 1496 Hwy 701 South, in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Elizabethtown Middle is a close-knit middle school that hosts 305 students (grades 5 through 8), part of Bladen County Schools. That puts it 50% leaner than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Bladen County Schools comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 3,928 students; Elizabethtown Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Elizabethtown Middle shows that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 24% Hispanic, 15% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Elizabethtown Middle has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Elizabethtown Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Elizabethtown Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.7%; this one comes in at 29.1%, -20.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bladen County) records that median household earnings sit near $42,422, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Elizabethtown Middle is one of 15 public schools in Bladen County (combined enrollment of about 4,756 students).

Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elizabethtown Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 41.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 402 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 15% across the same window.

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