L Gilbert Carroll

L Gilbert Carroll is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Lumberton, North Carolina, operated by Public Schools of Robeson County, with 494 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 5.

Within Public Schools of Robeson County, which oversees 36 schools and 20,856 students, L Gilbert Carroll is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, L Gilbert Carroll logs that the most-represented group is Black (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 12% Native American, 11% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at L Gilbert Carroll qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, L Gilbert Carroll falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.5%; this one comes in at 26.9%, -21.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Robeson County) logs that median household earnings sit near $41,978, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. L Gilbert Carroll is one of 40 public schools in Robeson County (combined enrollment of about 21,625 students).

Lumberton Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts L Gilbert Carroll at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. L Gilbert Carroll's enrollment has contracted 25% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 494). Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 26% across the same window.

On the community side, members of the L Gilbert Carroll community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.