Helena Elementary

Helena Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Timberlake, North Carolina, one of the schools within Person County Schools, with 512 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Person County Schools, which oversees 12 schools and 4,497 students, Helena Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Helena Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Black, 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Person County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Helena Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Helena Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Helena Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Helena Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 65.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Person County) shows that median household income runs about $63,300, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Person County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,659 students), Helena Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: South Elementary, around 6.4 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Helena Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 583 students in 2018 compared to 512 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 75% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 in 2025.

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