Grantham Elementary

Grantham Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in Goldsboro, North Carolina, overseen by Wayne County Public Schools, with 442 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

Across the 33 schools in Wayne County Public Schools (17,150 students total), Grantham Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Grantham Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 34% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wayne County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Grantham Elementary records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grantham 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 65.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $59,733 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Wayne County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students), Grantham Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Grantham Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grantham Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.2%.

Grantham Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Grantham Elementary's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 486 (now 442). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 23% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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