Frederick Douglass Elementary

Frederick Douglass Elementary, a small elementary-level community in Wilson, North Carolina, overseen by Wilson County Schools, educates 339 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Frederick Douglass Elementary is one of 25 schools operated by Wilson County Schools, a district that works with 10,451 students overall.

On demographics, Frederick Douglass Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% White, 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Frederick Douglass Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 63.8%, a residual of +15.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wilson County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,423, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Wilson County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,482 students), of which Frederick Douglass Elementary is one.

Wells Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Frederick Douglass Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Frederick Douglass Elementary at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 45.4%.

Frederick Douglass Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Frederick Douglass Elementary's enrollment has fell 21% since 2018, when it stood at 429 (now 339). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 15% to 23% over that span.

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