Gray's Creek Elementary

Gray's Creek Elementary operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Hope Mills, North Carolina, one of the schools within Cumberland County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 428 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Cumberland County Schools runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 49,002 students. Gray's Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gray's Creek Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Black, 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Native American.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cumberland County's rate of about 86%.

After controlling for student poverty, Gray's Creek Elementary ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.5%; Gray's Creek Elementary posts 71.1%, +22.6 points above that line.

In the broader community, Cumberland County reports that median household income runs about $61,291, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Cumberland County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), of which Gray's Creek Elementary is one.

Alderman Road Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gray's Creek Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Gray's Creek Elementary's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 441 (now 428). The White share of enrollment shrank from 58% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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