Louisburg Elementary

As a tight-knit K-5 school in Louisburg, North Carolina, Louisburg Elementary hosts 387 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Franklin County Schools.

Franklin County Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 7,978 students. Louisburg Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Louisburg Elementary reports that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 37% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Franklin County (around 82%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Louisburg Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 41.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Franklin County) records that median household income runs about $74,240, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,614 students), of which Louisburg Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Crosscreek Charter School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Louisburg Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Louisburg Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 505 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 21% to 14%.

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