Elmhurst Elementary

As a moderately sized primary school in Greenville, North Carolina, Elmhurst Elementary enrolls 454 students from grades K through 5, run under Pitt County Schools.

Across the 40 schools in Pitt County Schools (24,470 students total), Elmhurst Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Elmhurst Elementary records that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 35% White, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Pitt County as a whole is about 35% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Elmhurst Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Elmhurst Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Elmhurst 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 56.3%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Pitt County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,188 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Pitt County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,202 students), Elmhurst Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Vidant Health is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Elmhurst Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elmhurst Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 50.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 16%: 390 students in 2018 compared to 454 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 20% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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