Emereau: Bladen

Emereau: Bladen is a mid-tier elementary school in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, operated by Emereau: Bladen. The school enrolls 629 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 35% above the state mean of about 467.

Operationally, Emereau: Bladen answers to Emereau: Bladen, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Emereau: Bladen reports that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% Black, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Native American.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Emereau: Bladen has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bladen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $42,422 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Bladen County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,756 students), of which Emereau: Bladen is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elizabethtown Primary, around 2.4 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. As a public charter, Emereau: Bladen runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 103%: 310 students in 2018 compared to 629 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 70% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.