FPG Elementary

FPG Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, one of the schools within Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, with 536 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 11,392 students; FPG Elementary is among them.

On demographics, FPG Elementary shows that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 38% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, FPG Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.7%, the actual is 68.3%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,089, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Orange County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,582 students), of which FPG Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Phoenix Academy High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FPG Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FPG Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 63.0%.

FPG Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 536 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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