Lake Rim Elementary

Lake Rim Elementary is one of the average-sized K-5 schools in Fayetteville, North Carolina, operated by Cumberland County Schools, with 656 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Lake Rim Elementary sits 40% above that benchmark.

Cumberland County Schools runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 49,002 students. Lake Rim Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lake Rim Elementary logs that Black students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lake Rim Elementary has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Lake Rim Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cumberland County (around 86%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Lake Rim Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cumberland County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Cumberland County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), of which Lake Rim Elementary is one.

Alpha Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lake Rim Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Rim Elementary has ticked down 9%, going from 724 students in 2018 to 656 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 49% to 57%.

On the community side, the feed for Lake Rim Elementary typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.