L B Yancey Elementary

Located at 311 Hawkins Drive, in Henderson, North Carolina, L B Yancey Elementary is an one-room-style elementary campus that educates 186 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Vance County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 60% smaller than the state mean of about 467.

Vance County Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 5,205 students. L B Yancey Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, L B Yancey Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

On the resource side, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, L B Yancey Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.8%; this one delivers 40.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Vance County indicate the typical household earns roughly $50,465 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Vance County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,495 students), L B Yancey Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Henderson Collegiate, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), L B Yancey Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 38.6%.

L B Yancey Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 24%: 246 students in 2018 compared to 186 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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