Enrollment
254
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001100424
Manchester Elementary
611 Spring Avenue, Spring Lake, NC 28390 · (910) 436-2151 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL254 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% 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.
- 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
14.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
251 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 82%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 42 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
63%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
43.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
44.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 43 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
44.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.7%
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 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 Manchester Elementary
Manchester Elementary's state test result (44.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester Elementary this school | 254 | 98.8% | 44.1% |
| East Albemarle Elementary Albemarle | 261 | 98.9% | 24.8% |
| Zeb Vance Elementary Kittrell | 298 | 99.0% | 33.3% |
| James Y Joyner Elementary Greensboro | 274 | 98.9% | 55.7% |
| Bethel Elementary Bethel | 232 | 98.7% | 45.0% |
| Chadbourn Elementary Chadbourn | 233 | 98.7% | 47.1% |
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 Manchester Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #982 of 1,297 | #29 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #1,057 of 1,296 | #29 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #835 of 1,300 | #29 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 254 | #1,283 of 1,485 | #43 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #509 of 1,377 | #16 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #557 of 1,379 | #24 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.8% | #736 of 1,414 | #22 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.0% | #84 of 937 | #1 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
254
-64 (-20%) vs 2020
-61% since 1990-91, when it was 648
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 254 | 18 | 14.1:1 | 99% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 253 | 19.6 | 12.9:1 | 98% (247) |
| 2022-23 | 271 | 20.6 | 13.2:1 | 99% (268) |
| 2020-21 | 318 | 22 | 14.4:1 | 99% (315) |
| 2017-18 | 368 | 25 | 14.7:1 | 96% (352) |
| 2015-16 | 374 | 24 | 15.6:1 | 99% (369) |
| 2010-11 | 356 | 27 | 13.2:1 | 78% (279) |
| 2000-01 | 485 | 26 | 18.6:1 | 77% (372) |
| 1990-91 | 648 | 35 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Manchester Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (368 to 254); teachers down 28% (25 to 18).
About Manchester Elementary
Manchester Elementary is a small elementary school in Spring Lake, North Carolina, under Cumberland County Schools. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 254 students. It has 46% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in North Carolina (about 467).
Cumberland County Schools has 86 schools and 49,002 students, and Manchester Elementary is one of those schools.
About 55% of the student body at Manchester Elementary is Black. Other groups make up 18% Hispanic, 15% White, and 10% multiracial. County-wide, 38% of Cumberland County residents are Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 63%.
With 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.1:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina have an average ratio of 14.9:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Manchester Elementary, 99% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County.
Manchester Elementary earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 26% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Manchester Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.1%, compared with a predicted 48.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of North Carolina schools on BeatsExpectations.
For Cumberland County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $61,291 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Cumberland County number 89, with about 50,815 students.
Manchester Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Spring Lake Middle, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 6 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Manchester Elementary ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Manchester Elementary as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 20%.
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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 Spring Lake
- Overhills HighHigh · 1,981 students
- Overhills ElementaryElementary · 866 students
- Overhills MiddleMiddle · 758 students
- William T Brown ElementaryElementary · 562 students
- Spring Lake MiddleMiddle · 500 students
- Anderson Creek AcademyElementary · 305 students
Other Manchester Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 11 states are named Manchester Elementary. Manchester Elementary is the 8th largest of the 12.
- Manchester ElementaryManchester, MD · 671 students
- Manchester Elementary SchoolN Manchester, IN · 474 students
- Manchester Elementary SchoolPORT ORCHARD, WA · 458 students
- MANCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA, NE · 444 students
- Manchester Elementary SchoolManchester, KY · 409 students
Nearby schools
- Spring Lake Middle0.2 mi · 500
- William T Brown Elementary0.7 mi · 562
- Howard L Hall Elementary4.6 mi · 539
- Pine Forest High4.7 mi · 1,551
- Warrenwood Elementary4.8 mi · 424
- College Lakes Elementary4.8 mi · 459
Frequently asked questions
About Manchester ElementaryHow many students attend Manchester Elementary?
Manchester Elementary enrolls approximately 254 students in grades KG-05.
Is Manchester Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Manchester Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Manchester Elementary have?
Manchester Elementary employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Manchester Elementary?
Student demographics at Manchester Elementary are roughly 15% White, 18% Hispanic, 55% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Manchester Elementary in?
Manchester Elementary is part of Cumberland County Schools.
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