Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy

As a tiny elementary campus in Hollister, North Carolina, Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy hosts 173 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Halifax County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 63% below the state mean of about 467.

Halifax County Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 2,150 students. Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy lists that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 36% Native American, 12% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.8%; actual is 25.4%, a gap of -23.4 points.

In the broader community, Halifax County reports that median household earnings sit near $45,590, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, Halifax County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,803 students), of which Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Haliwa-Saponi Tribal School, around 2.2 miles off. On composite proficiency, Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hollister Elementary Leadership Academy's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 185 (now 173).

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