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What's the biggest difference between Gray's Creek Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
428
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001103082
Gray's Creek Elementary
2964 School Rd, Hope Mills, NC 28348 · (910) 483-3352 · Cumberland County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL428 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
425 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 51% smaller than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
67.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
74.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in North Carolina's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Gray's Creek Elementary
Gray's Creek Elementary's state test result (71.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray's Creek Elementary this school | 428 | 99.3% | 71.1% |
| Bladenboro Primary Bladenboro | 448 | 99.3% | 42.6% |
| Old Richmond Elementary Tobaccoville | 408 | 99.3% | 69.2% |
| Brinson Memorial Elementary New Bern | 446 | 97.5% | 57.9% |
| East Rockingham Elementary Rockingham | 430 | 99.1% | 43.9% |
| Chocowinity Primary Chocowinity | 484 | 98.8% | 86.4% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Gray's Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.1% | #205 of 1,297 | #3 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.6% | #228 of 1,296 | #3 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.4% | #173 of 1,300 | #3 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 428 | #816 of 1,485 | #27 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,182 of 1,377 | #41 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.3% | #233 of 1,379 | #14 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #401 of 1,414 | #12 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.9% | #850 of 937 | #32 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
428
+13 (+3%) vs 2020
+18% since 2010-11, when it was 364
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 13.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 428 | 25.5 | 16.8:1 | 99% (425) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 31.8 | 14.4:1 | 99% (456) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 28.8 | 16.0:1 | 98% (453) |
| 2020-21 | 415 | 31 | 13.4:1 | 97% (404) |
| 2017-18 | 441 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 44% (192) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 30 | 14.4:1 | 44% (189) |
| 2010-11 | 364 | 22 | 16.6:1 | 45% (163) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gray's Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (441 to 428); teachers down 9% (28 to 25.5).
About Gray's Creek Elementary
At 2964 School Rd in Hope Mills, North Carolina, Gray's Creek Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school. Enrollment totals 428 students across pre-K through 5.
Gray's Creek Elementary is a school in Cumberland County Schools. The district has 86 schools and 49,002 students.
The student body at Gray's Creek Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 47%. The remaining shares are 21% Black, 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 4% Native American. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 16.8:1. The average for elementary schools in North Carolina, 14.9:1, is lower. Of all students at Gray's Creek Elementary, 99% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Cumberland County is 86%.
On the allk12 Grade, Gray's Creek Elementary lands at A, ahead of 93% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Gray's Creek Elementary is 48.5%. It actually posts 71.1%, which is 22.6 points higher and in the top 10% of North Carolina schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Cumberland County show that the median household earns about $61,291 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Cumberland County has 89 public schools with about 50,815 students, including Gray's Creek Elementary.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Alderman Road Elementary, is about 0.6 miles. Within five miles are 4 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 49.2%; Gray's Creek Elementary's is 71.1%, ranking 1st of 9.
The NCES locale for Gray's Creek Elementary is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 428, compared with 415 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 13.4:1 to 16.8:1.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Hope Mills
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Gray's Creek MiddleMiddle · 1,068 students
- Gallberry Farm ElementaryElementary · 883 students
- Rockfish ElementaryElementary · 682 students
- Ed V Baldwin ElementaryElementary · 634 students
Other Gray's Creek Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Gray's Creek Elementary. Gray's Creek Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Gray's Creek Elementary SchoolDenham Springs, LA · 475 students
Nearby schools
- Alderman Road Elementary0.6 mi · 655
- Gray's Creek Middle1.8 mi · 1,068
- Gray's Creek High3.0 mi · 1,458
- Gallberry Farm Elementary3.4 mi · 883
- Hope Mills Middle6.6 mi · 474
- South View High7.0 mi · 1,461
Frequently asked questions
About Gray's Creek ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Gray's Creek Elementary?
Gray's Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 428 students in grades PK-05.
Is Gray's Creek Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Gray's Creek Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Gray's Creek Elementary?
Approximately 16.8:1 students per teacher at Gray's Creek Elementary.
How diverse is Gray's Creek Elementary?
Gray's Creek Elementary reports a student body of 47% White, 16% Hispanic, 21% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Gray's Creek Elementary?
Gray's Creek Elementary is overseen by Cumberland County Schools in Cumberland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.