Greenwood Middle

Set in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Greenwood Middle is a tight-knit junior high, run under Wayne County Public Schools. It enrolls 402 students across grades 5 through 8. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Wayne County Public Schools comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 17,150 students; Greenwood Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Greenwood Middle lists that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 22% White, 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Greenwood Middle lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Greenwood Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wayne County shows median household earnings sit near $59,733, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wayne County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students), of which Greenwood Middle is one.

Meadow Lane Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Greenwood Middle at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 65.4%.

Greenwood Middle operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Greenwood Middle's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 402). The Black share of enrollment declined from 52% to 48% over that span.

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