Grover C Fields Middle

Grover C Fields Middle is one of the medium-sized middle-grades schools in New Bern, North Carolina, part of Craven County Board of Education, with 542 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 26 schools in Craven County Board of Education (12,152 students total), Grover C Fields Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Grover C Fields Middle reports that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Grover C Fields Middle lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Craven County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Grover C Fields Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.8%; this one delivers 64.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Craven County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $65,873 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grover C Fields Middle is one of 27 public schools in Craven County (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students).

Trent Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grover C Fields Middle. On composite proficiency, Grover C Fields Middle comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grover C Fields Middle has edged down 3%, going from 556 students in 2018 to 542 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 9% to 16%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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