Gallberry Farm Elementary

Set in Hope Mills, North Carolina, Gallberry Farm Elementary is a substantial primary school, operated by Cumberland County Schools. It enrolls 883 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 89% above typical.

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

On the student-mix side, Gallberry Farm Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Black, 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Gallberry Farm Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Gallberry Farm Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 60.6%, a residual of +12.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cumberland County put the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Cumberland County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), of which Gallberry Farm Elementary is one.

Gray's Creek High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gallberry Farm Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 50.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 1,024 students in 2018 compared to 883 in 2025.

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