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What tradition at Lake Rim Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
656
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001102514
Lake Rim Elementary
1455 Hoke Loop Road, Fayetteville, NC 28314 · (910) 867-1133 · Cumberland County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 33% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
15.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
652 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
61%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
47.9%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
43.3%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% 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 Lake Rim Elementary
Lake Rim Elementary's state test result (47.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Rim Elementary this school | 656 | 99.4% | 47.4% |
| Guilford Elementary Greensboro | 623 | 99.5% | 35.4% |
| Ed V Baldwin Elementary Hope Mills | 634 | 99.5% | 38.3% |
| Cliffdale Elementary Fayetteville | 613 | 97.9% | 37.8% |
| Cumberland Mills Elementary Fayetteville | 573 | 96.7% | 41.6% |
| William T Brown Elementary Spring Lake | 562 | 98.2% | 40.5% |
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 Lake Rim Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #891 of 1,297 | #26 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #1,077 of 1,296 | #31 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #689 of 1,300 | #22 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #244 of 1,485 | #8 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #990 of 1,377 | #32 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.1% | #661 of 1,379 | #28 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #297 of 1,414 | #9 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.4% | #609 of 937 | #19 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
656
-41 (-6%) vs 2020
-16% since 2000-01, when it was 782
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 656 | 41.2 | 15.9:1 | 99% (652) |
| 2023-24 | 647 | 43.7 | 14.8:1 | 100% (644) |
| 2022-23 | 641 | 41.6 | 15.4:1 | 100% (638) |
| 2020-21 | 697 | 42 | 16.6:1 | 97% (677) |
| 2017-18 | 724 | 44.1 | 16.4:1 | 99% (715) |
| 2015-16 | 683 | 39 | 17.5:1 | 59% (404) |
| 2010-11 | 575 | 37 | 15.5:1 | 42% (239) |
| 2000-01 | 782 | 37 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Rim Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (724 to 656); teachers down 7% (44.1 to 41.2).
About Lake Rim Elementary
At 1455 Hoke Loop Road in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Lake Rim Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 656 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in North Carolina is roughly 467 students; this school is 40% larger than that.
The Cumberland County Schools system has 86 schools and 49,002 students.
At 57%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Lake Rim Elementary combined. It is also 20% Hispanic, 12% White, and 9% multiracial. Cumberland County's residents are about 38% Black, 20 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Lake Rim Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
The school reports 41.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.9 students per teacher. The 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina is lower than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 99%. Compared with the 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County, the school's rate is higher.
The allk12 Grade for Lake Rim Elementary is C. Compared with North Carolina public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 33% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in North Carolina with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 48.5%. Lake Rim Elementary scores 47.4%.
Federal survey data for Cumberland County show that median household income is about $61,291, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. A total of 89 public schools operate in Cumberland County, serving about 50,815 students.
The closest public school to Lake Rim Elementary is Alpha Academy, about 1.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 47.4% average proficiency ranks 7th among 8 nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, Lake Rim Elementary is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Lake Rim Elementary had 697 students in 2020-21 and 656 in 2024-25, a 6% decrease.
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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
- Alpha Academy1.2 mi · 960
- E E Miller Elementary1.9 mi · 656
- Bill Hefner Elementary2.2 mi · 712
- New Century International Elementary3.2 mi · 686
- New Century International Middle3.4 mi · 362
- Loyd E Auman Elementary3.8 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Rim ElementaryHow many students attend Lake Rim Elementary?
Lake Rim Elementary enrolls approximately 656 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Lake Rim Elementary serve?
Lake Rim Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Lake Rim Elementary?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at Lake Rim Elementary.
How diverse is Lake Rim Elementary?
Lake Rim Elementary reports a student body of 12% White, 20% Hispanic, 57% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Lake Rim Elementary public or private?
Lake Rim 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.