Kitty Hawk Elementary School

Kitty Hawk Elementary School is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, overseen by Dare County Schools, teacheing 487 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Dare County Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,968 students. Kitty Hawk Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kitty Hawk Elementary School reports that nearly all students (87%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Kitty Hawk Elementary School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Kitty Hawk Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dare County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kitty Hawk Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.8%, the actual is 73.6%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Dare County shows median household earnings sit near $88,994, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kitty Hawk Elementary School is one of 12 public schools in Dare County (combined enrollment of about 4,968 students).

The closest other public school is First Flight High School, roughly 7.2 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kitty Hawk Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 62.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Kitty Hawk Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.