Fairview Elementary

Fairview Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The school counts 259 students across kindergarten through 2. The school's enrollment is 45% smaller than the 467 average for elementary schools in North Carolina.

The district, Nash County Public Schools, has 14,587 students enrolled across 28 schools.

Black students make up 90% of enrollment at Fairview Elementary. Other students are 5% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. That is higher than the 56% Black share among all Edgecombe County residents. The school's diversity index is 19%, meaning two students picked at random have a 19% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

A ratio of 15.4:1 comes from the school's 18.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 99% in 2023-24. For comparison, public schools in Edgecombe County average 99%.

Edgecombe County has these Census figures: the median household income is $51,265, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 19% of residents are in poverty. In all, Edgecombe County has 27 public schools and roughly 8,573 students.

The closest public school, Fairview Elementary, is less than a tenth of a mile from Fairview Elementary. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Enrollment is down 40% from 2017-18, when Fairview Elementary had 434 students, to 2023-24, when it had 259. In 2017-18, 94% of students were Black; in 2023-24, 90% were. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 14.1:1, from 18.1:1.

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