Malpass Corner Elementary

Malpass Corner Elementary, a medium-sized K-5 school in Burgaw, North Carolina, part of Pender County Schools, works with 513 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Pender County Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,073 students. Malpass Corner Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Malpass Corner Elementary records that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 31% Hispanic, 26% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Pender County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Malpass Corner Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pender County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Malpass Corner Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -9.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pender County put median household income runs about $80,396, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Pender County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,073 students), Malpass Corner Elementary is one campus in the mix.

West Pender Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Malpass Corner Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 12%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 40% to 26%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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