First Flight Elementary School

Located at 107 Veterans Drive, in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, First Flight Elementary School is a compact K-5 school that teaches 285 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Dare County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 39% leaner than the state mean of about 467.

Dare County Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,968 students. First Flight Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, First Flight Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, First Flight Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at First Flight Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, First Flight Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.7%; this one delivers 53.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Dare County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,994 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dare County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,968 students), of which First Flight Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: First Flight Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), First Flight Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 24%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the First Flight Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.