Mangum Elementary

Set in Bahama, North Carolina, Mangum Elementary is a small elementary-level community, one of the schools within Durham Public Schools. It hosts 315 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Mangum Elementary is one of 55 schools operated by Durham Public Schools, a district that enrolls 31,797 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mangum Elementary logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Mangum Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mangum Elementary ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.6%; Mangum Elementary posts 75.4%, +26.8 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Durham County shows median household income runs about $82,316, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mangum Elementary is one of 74 public schools in Durham County (combined enrollment of about 46,109 students).

Discovery Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Mangum Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mangum Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 50.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mangum Elementary has contracted 5%, going from 331 students in 2018 to 315 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 77% to 62% over that span.

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