Grandy Primary

As a mid-tier elementary campus in Camden, North Carolina, Grandy Primary hosts 415 students from grades pre-K through 2, overseen by Camden County Schools.

Camden County Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,918 students. Grandy Primary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Grandy Primary logs that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Camden County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Grandy Primary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 30% of students at Grandy Primary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Camden County put the typical household earns roughly $91,078 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Camden County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,918 students), of which Grandy Primary is one.

Camden Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grandy Primary.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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