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What's one thing Loyd E Auman Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
495
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001102120
Loyd E Auman Elementary
6882 Raeford Road, Fayetteville, NC 28304 · (910) 868-8153 · Cumberland County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL495 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% 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
14.0:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
491 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 | 16 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
62%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
46.0%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
45.7%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Loyd E Auman Elementary
Loyd E Auman Elementary's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loyd E Auman Elementary this school | 495 | 99.2% | 47.9% |
| Morganton Road Elementary Fayetteville | 491 | 99.4% | 43.4% |
| Benjamin J Martin Elementary Fayetteville | 522 | 97.7% | 38.2% |
| Parkwood Elementary Durham | 491 | 99.4% | 34.0% |
| Reedy Fork Elementary Greensboro | 538 | 99.4% | 53.3% |
| Vinson-Bynum Elementary Wilson | 458 | 99.3% | 59.4% |
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 Loyd E Auman Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #875 of 1,297 | #25 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #1,014 of 1,296 | #27 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #754 of 1,300 | #26 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 495 | #622 of 1,485 | #20 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #483 of 1,377 | #14 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.6% | #641 of 1,379 | #27 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.2% | #508 of 1,414 | #16 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.3% | #660 of 937 | #21 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
495
+24 (+5%) vs 2020
-61% since 1990-91, when it was 1,278
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 495 | 35.3 | 14.0:1 | 99% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 488 | 37 | 13.2:1 | 99% (485) |
| 2022-23 | 528 | 42.5 | 12.4:1 | 99% (525) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 38 | 12.4:1 | 99% (468) |
| 2017-18 | 540 | 37 | 14.6:1 | 98% (527) |
| 2015-16 | 543 | 40 | 13.6:1 | 71% (388) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | 40 | 15.3:1 | 58% (354) |
| 2000-01 | 566 | 28 | 20.2:1 | 64% (363) |
| 1990-91 | 1,278 | 59 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Loyd E Auman Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (540 to 495); teachers down 5% (37 to 35.3).
About Loyd E Auman Elementary
Loyd E Auman Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in North Carolina, with an address in Fayetteville. The school enrolls 495 students in pre-K through 5.
Cumberland County Schools, which runs Loyd E Auman Elementary, has 86 schools and 49,002 students.
More than half of enrollment at Loyd E Auman Elementary is Black: 58%. Other groups make up 17% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Cumberland County as a whole is about 38% Black, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 62%.
The school has 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.0 students per teacher. Elementary schools in North Carolina have an average ratio of 14.9:1. The school reported 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Cumberland County average 86%.
On the allk12 Grade, Loyd E Auman Elementary lands at C, ahead of 34% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Loyd E Auman Elementary is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (47.9% versus 48.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in North Carolina.
For the population of Cumberland County, median household income comes to about $61,291, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Cumberland County's 89 public schools enroll about 50,815 students and include Loyd E Auman Elementary.
The closest school to Loyd E Auman Elementary is Seventy-First Classical Middle, located about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 48.9% on proficiency, and Loyd E Auman Elementary is below that at 47.9%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2020-21, Loyd E Auman Elementary enrolled 471 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 495. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.0:1.
On allk12, people connected to Loyd E Auman Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
- Seventy-First Classical Middle0.1 mi · 433
- Seventy-First High0.3 mi · 1,332
- Brentwood Elementary1.6 mi · 494
- Cliffdale Elementary1.7 mi · 613
- Lewis Chapel Middle2.1 mi · 574
- E E Miller Elementary2.2 mi · 656
Frequently asked questions
About Loyd E Auman ElementaryHow many students attend Loyd E Auman Elementary?
Loyd E Auman Elementary enrolls approximately 495 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Loyd E Auman Elementary serve?
Loyd E Auman Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Loyd E Auman Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Loyd E Auman Elementary is approximately 14.0:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Loyd E Auman Elementary?
At Loyd E Auman Elementary, the student body is approximately 12% White, 17% Hispanic, 58% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Loyd E Auman Elementary?
Loyd E Auman Elementary is overseen by Cumberland County Schools in Cumberland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.