1
Enrollment
779
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ROBESON COUNTY·NCES 370393001574
Magnolia Elementary
10928 US 301 North, Lumberton, NC 28360 · (910) 671-6070 · Robeson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL779 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
16.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
776 students
DISTRICT 98% · 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 | 28 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 76 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 142 | 18% |
| Grade 8 | 141 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 57% smaller than its 8th grade class (141).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
38.5%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
43.7%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% 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 Magnolia Elementary
Magnolia Elementary's state test result (43.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magnolia Elementary this school | 779 | 99.6% | 43.9% |
| Saint Pauls Elementary Saint Pauls | 710 | 99.6% | 28.8% |
| Knollwood Elementary Salisbury | 585 | 99.5% | 28.0% |
| Mountain View Elementary Morganton | 762 | 97.8% | 46.0% |
| J Glenn Edwards Elementary Sanford | 587 | 99.5% | 52.2% |
| Kernersville Elementary Kernersville | 568 | 99.5% | 50.5% |
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 Magnolia Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Robeson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #989 of 1,297 | #8 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.7% | #1,066 of 1,296 | #13 of 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #993 of 1,300 | #5 of 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 779 | #100 of 1,485 | #1 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #1,122 of 1,377 | #17 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.2% | #567 of 1,379 | #13 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #37 of 1,414 | #1 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #878 of 937 | #16 of 18 |
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
779
+16 (+2%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 1,011
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
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 | 779 | 47.3 | 16.5:1 | 100% (776) |
| 2023-24 | 802 | 45.4 | 17.7:1 | 100% (798) |
| 2022-23 | 781 | 49.7 | 15.7:1 | 100% (778) |
| 2020-21 | 763 | 46 | 16.6:1 | 100% (760) |
| 2017-18 | 796 | 46.8 | 17.0:1 | 99% (792) |
| 2015-16 | 851 | 45 | 18.9:1 | 100% (848) |
| 2010-11 | 789 | 48 | 16.4:1 | 90% (707) |
| 2000-01 | 606 | 40 | 15.2:1 | 80% (487) |
| 1990-91 | 1,011 | 61 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Magnolia Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (796 to 779); teachers up 1% (46.8 to 47.3).
About Magnolia Elementary
Magnolia Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school in Lumberton, North Carolina, one of the schools in Public Schools of Robeson County. It teaches 779 students in pre-K through 8. That is 67% bigger than the average of about 467 students for elementary schools in North Carolina.
Magnolia Elementary is part of a district of 36 schools: Public Schools of Robeson County, with 20,856 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Magnolia Elementary is Hispanic, with 46% of students. Next come 39% Native American, 6% White, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 11% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Magnolia Elementary scores 63%.
Staffing at Magnolia Elementary comes to 47.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.5:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in North Carolina is 14.9:1. Magnolia Elementary counts 100% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Robeson County is similar, at 98%.
Among North Carolina public elementary schools, Magnolia Elementary outscored 24%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
After adjusting for student poverty, Magnolia Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of North Carolina schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 43.9%; the prediction is 48.4%.
The school's county is Robeson County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $41,978, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 15%, and about 21% of people live in poverty. Robeson County's 40 public schools enroll about 21,625 students and include Magnolia Elementary.
PSRC Early College at RCC sits about 2.5 miles from Magnolia Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 4 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 46.0% proficiency; Magnolia Elementary posts 43.9%.
The school's locale code, Rural: Fringe, means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Federal data show 763 students in 2020-21 and 779 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
This page is set up for the Magnolia Elementary community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Robeson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
116,902
Census ACS
Median income
$41,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
21%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,625 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Public Schools of Robeson County
- Lumberton Senior HighHigh · 1,894 students
- Purnell Swett HighHigh · 1,583 students
- Saint Pauls HighHigh · 1,142 students
- Red Springs HighHigh · 867 students
- Fairmont HighHigh · 780 students
- Prospect ElementaryElementary · 775 students
Other schools in Lumberton
- Lumberton Senior HighHigh · 1,894 students
- Lumberton JuniorMiddle · 655 students
- Littlefield MiddleMiddle · 632 students
- East Robeson PrimaryElementary · 556 students
- Rowland Norment ElementaryElementary · 495 students
- L Gilbert CarrollElementary · 494 students
Other Magnolia Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 7 states are named Magnolia Elementary. Magnolia Elementary is the largest of the 14.
- Magnolia ElementaryEl Cajon, CA · 703 students
- Magnolia Elementary SchoolPEARLAND, TX · 703 students
- Magnolia ElementaryOakdale, CA · 636 students
- Magnolia ElementaryJoppa, MD · 545 students
- Magnolia ElementaryRiverside, CA · 535 students
Nearby schools
- PSRC Early College at RCC2.5 mi · 274
- Piney Grove Elementary2.6 mi · 452
- L Gilbert Carroll3.8 mi · 494
- Lumberton Senior High4.5 mi · 1,894
- Tanglewood Elementary5.1 mi · 355
- Rowland Norment Elementary6.1 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About Magnolia ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Magnolia Elementary?
Magnolia Elementary enrolls approximately 779 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Magnolia Elementary serve?
Magnolia Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Magnolia Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Magnolia Elementary is approximately 16.5:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Magnolia Elementary?
At Magnolia Elementary, the student body is approximately 6% White, 46% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Magnolia Elementary public or private?
Magnolia Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Public Schools of Robeson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.