Harvey R Newlin Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary school in Burlington, North Carolina, Harvey R Newlin Elementary works with 491 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Alamance-Burlington Schools.

Alamance-Burlington Schools comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 22,661 students; Harvey R Newlin Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Harvey R Newlin Elementary shows that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 30% Black, 10% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Alamance County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Harvey R Newlin Elementary has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at Harvey R Newlin Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Alamance County's rate of about 80%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Harvey R Newlin Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.5%; this one comes in at 25.7%, -22.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Alamance County shows median household earnings sit near $65,651, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Alamance County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,737 students), Harvey R Newlin Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Graham Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harvey R Newlin Elementary. On composite proficiency, Harvey R Newlin Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 647 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 38% to 51% over that span.

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