Eno Valley Elementary

Eno Valley Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Durham, North Carolina, part of Durham Public Schools, educates 440 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Durham Public Schools, which oversees 55 schools and 31,797 students, Eno Valley Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Eno Valley Elementary shows that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 35% Hispanic, 7% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Durham County as a whole is about 32% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Eno Valley 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 40.1%, a residual of -8.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Durham County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,316, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Eno Valley Elementary is one of 74 public schools in Durham County (combined enrollment of about 46,109 students).

George L Carrington Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eno Valley Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 485 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 67% to 49%.

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