Havelock Elementary

Set in Havelock, North Carolina, Havelock Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school, run under Craven County Board of Education. It educates 248 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% leaner than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Craven County Board of Education runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 12,152 students. Havelock Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Havelock Elementary lists that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 23% Black, 20% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Craven County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Havelock Elementary logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Craven County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Havelock Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 52.3%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Craven County shows median household income runs about $65,873, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Craven County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), Havelock Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Early College EAST High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Havelock Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Havelock Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Havelock Elementary has fell 29%, going from 351 students in 2018 to 248 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 18% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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