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Enrollment
539
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001102128
Howard L Hall Elementary
526 Andrews Road, Fayetteville, NC 28311 · (910) 822-5100 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL539 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
536 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
55.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
61.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Howard L Hall Elementary
Howard L Hall Elementary's state test result (61.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard L Hall Elementary this school | 539 | 99.4% | 61.9% |
| Central Elementary Albemarle | 525 | 99.4% | 39.9% |
| C Wayne Collier Elementary Hope Mills | 532 | 99.4% | 55.1% |
| East Clayton Elementary Clayton | 524 | 98.3% | 52.4% |
| C.F. Pope Elementary Burgaw | 530 | 97.7% | 35.6% |
| Murray-Massenburg Elementary Durham | 517 | 99.4% | 43.0% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Howard L Hall Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #444 of 1,297 | #10 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #573 of 1,296 | #12 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #446 of 1,300 | #11 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 539 | #494 of 1,485 | #16 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,001 of 1,377 | #33 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.1% | #57 of 1,379 | #6 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #220 of 1,414 | #6 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.9% | #128 of 937 | #2 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
539
-48 (-8%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 518
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 539 | 33.8 | 16.0:1 | 99% (536) |
| 2023-24 | 563 | 42 | 13.4:1 | 99% (556) |
| 2022-23 | 600 | 42.7 | 14.1:1 | 100% (597) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | 45 | 13.0:1 | 99% (584) |
| 2017-18 | 737 | 47 | 15.7:1 | 39% (290) |
| 2015-16 | 628 | 40 | 15.7:1 | 39% (247) |
| 2010-11 | 636 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 44% (280) |
| 2000-01 | 502 | 25 | 20.1:1 | 40% (201) |
| 1990-91 | 518 | 25 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Howard L Hall Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (737 to 539); teachers down 28% (47 to 33.8).
About Howard L Hall Elementary
Among the schools in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is Howard L Hall Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 539 students enrolled.
Howard L Hall Elementary is one school in an 86-school district, Cumberland County Schools, which enrolls 49,002 students.
At Howard L Hall Elementary, the largest share of students is Black, at 36%. After that, the student body is 30% White, 19% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, Cumberland County is about 38% Black. The school's diversity index is 73%, meaning two students picked at random have a 73% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 33.8 full-time positions, a ratio of 16.0:1. That is higher than the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 99%. That is 13 points above the 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County.
Measured against North Carolina public elementary schools, Howard L Hall Elementary receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Howard L Hall Elementary are 13.5 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (61.9% actual, 48.5% predicted).
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cumberland County show that the median household income is $61,291, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Besides Howard L Hall Elementary, Cumberland County has 88 other public schools.
The school nearest to Howard L Hall Elementary is Pine Forest High, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Howard L Hall Elementary ranks 2nd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Howard L Hall Elementary falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 539, an 8% decrease from 587 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 16.0 students per teacher, compared with 13.0 in 2020-21.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Fayetteville
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
- Westover HighHigh · 1,234 students
- Terry Sanford HighHigh · 1,201 students
Nearby schools
- Pine Forest High0.2 mi · 1,551
- Long Hill Elementary1.3 mi · 412
- College Lakes Elementary2.1 mi · 459
- Pine Forest Middle2.3 mi · 703
- Warrenwood Elementary2.8 mi · 424
- Reid Ross Classical High3.8 mi · 227
Frequently asked questions
About Howard L Hall ElementaryHow large is Howard L Hall Elementary?
Howard L Hall Elementary enrolls approximately 539 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Howard L Hall Elementary serve?
Howard L Hall Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Howard L Hall Elementary?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Howard L Hall Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Howard L Hall Elementary?
Student demographics at Howard L Hall Elementary are roughly 30% White, 19% Hispanic, 36% Black, 3% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Howard L Hall Elementary public or private?
Howard L Hall Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cumberland County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.