Fremont STARS Elementary

Fremont STARS Elementary is one of the average-sized K-5 schools in Fremont, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wayne County Public Schools, with 535 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Wayne County Public Schools runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 17,150 students. Fremont STARS Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fremont STARS Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 21% Black, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wayne County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Fremont STARS Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fremont STARS Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 51.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household income runs about $59,733, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Fremont STARS Elementary is one of 36 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students).

Nearest neighbor: Charles B Aycock High, around 2.6 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fremont STARS Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 63.0%.

Fremont STARS Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Fremont STARS Elementary's enrollment has edged up 106% since 2018, when it stood at 260 (now 535). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 13% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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