Hunters Creek Elementary

Hunters Creek Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Jacksonville, North Carolina, part of Onslow County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 585 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Onslow County Schools runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 27,397 students. Hunters Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hunters Creek Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 30% Hispanic, 22% Black, 15% multiracial. By comparison, Onslow County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Hunters Creek Elementary reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Onslow County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hunters Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of -6.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Onslow County put the typical household earns roughly $68,148 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Hunters Creek Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Onslow County (combined enrollment of about 27,501 students).

Hunters Creek Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hunters Creek Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hunters Creek Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 48.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 619 students in 2018 compared to 585 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 32% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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