Graham A Barden Elementary

Located at 200 Cedar Drive, in Havelock, North Carolina, Graham A Barden Elementary is a small elementary school that teaches 237 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Craven County Board of Education. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Graham A Barden Elementary sits 49% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Craven County Board of Education, which oversees 26 schools and 12,152 students, Graham A Barden Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Graham A Barden Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 19% Black, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Craven County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Graham A Barden Elementary reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Craven County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Graham A Barden Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of -9.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Craven County put median household earnings sit near $65,873, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Graham A Barden Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Craven County (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students).

Arthur W Edwards Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Graham A Barden Elementary. On composite proficiency, Graham A Barden Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Graham A Barden Elementary's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 295 (now 237). White enrollment moved from 55% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Graham A Barden Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.