Lee Woodard Elementary

Set in Black Creek, North Carolina, Lee Woodard Elementary is a micro-enrollment elementary campus, operated by Wilson County Schools. It caters to 173 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Lee Woodard Elementary sits 63% below that benchmark.

Wilson County Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 10,451 students. Lee Woodard Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Lee Woodard Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 23% Black, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wilson County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lee Woodard Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Wilson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,423 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lee Woodard Elementary is one of 29 public schools in Wilson County (combined enrollment of about 12,482 students).

The closest other public school is Lucama Elementary, roughly 3.5 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lee Woodard Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 197 students in 2018 compared to 173 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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