Elizabethtown Primary

Elizabethtown Primary is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, overseen by Bladen County Schools, caters to 483 students in grades pre-K through 4.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Elizabethtown Primary records that Black students make up the majority at 62%; the rest comes out to 16% White, 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Bladen County as a whole is about 32% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Elizabethtown Primary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Elizabethtown Primary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bladen County shows median household earnings sit near $42,422, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. In all, Bladen County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,756 students), of which Elizabethtown Primary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Elizabethtown Primary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elizabethtown Primary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.9%.

Elizabethtown Primary operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Elizabethtown Primary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 488 (now 483). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 26% to 16%.

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