Ferguson-Easley Elementary

Located at 1857 Seabrook Road, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Ferguson-Easley Elementary is a small primary school that works with 392 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Cumberland County Schools.

Cumberland County Schools comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 49,002 students; Ferguson-Easley Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Ferguson-Easley Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 38% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 96% 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 Cumberland County's rate of about 86%.

After controlling for student poverty, Ferguson-Easley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 32.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cumberland County) shows that median household earnings sit near $61,291, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Ferguson-Easley Elementary is one of 89 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students).

The closest other public school is E E Smith High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ferguson-Easley Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Ferguson-Easley Elementary's enrollment has grew 59% since 2018, when it stood at 247 (now 392). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 83% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Ferguson-Easley Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.