Fairview Elementary

Fairview Elementary is an elementary campus of tight-knit scale in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, operated by Nash County Public Schools, instructing 259 students in grades K through 2. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Fairview Elementary sits 45% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 28 schools in Nash County Public Schools (14,587 students total), Fairview Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Fairview Elementary logs that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Fairview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, Edgecombe County reports that median household earnings sit near $51,265, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Fairview Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Edgecombe County (combined enrollment of about 8,573 students).

Fairview Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Fairview Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 6-year window. Fairview Elementary's enrollment has fell 40% since 2018, when it stood at 434 (now 259). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 94% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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