Erwin Elementary

Set in Erwin, North Carolina, Erwin Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school, one of the schools within Harnett County Schools. It serves 637 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% above the state mean of about 467.

Within Harnett County Schools, which oversees 29 schools and 20,095 students, Erwin Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Erwin Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 23% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Erwin Elementary has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Harnett County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Erwin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of -15.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Harnett County shows median household income runs about $71,287, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Harnett County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,611 students), of which Erwin Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Triton High, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Erwin Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Erwin Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.7%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Erwin Elementary's enrollment has edged up 127% since 2018, when it stood at 281 (now 637). Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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