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What tradition at Margaret Hearne Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 372 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILSON COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370502002003
Margaret Hearne Elementary
300 W Gold St, Wilson, NC 27893 · (252) 399-7925 · Wilson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% 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.
- 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
15.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
420 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 | 41 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
56%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
38.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
40.4%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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
42.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% 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 Margaret Hearne Elementary
Margaret Hearne Elementary's state test result (42.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Hearne Elementary this school | 423 | 99.3% | 42.1% |
| Bolton Elementary Winston Salem | 380 | 99.2% | 46.7% |
| Southeast Raleigh Elementary Raleigh | 378 | 99.2% | 34.5% |
| Northwest Elementary Greenville | 361 | 99.2% | 46.0% |
| Eno Valley Elementary Durham | 440 | 99.3% | 40.1% |
| W H Knuckles Lumberton | 382 | 99.2% | 36.8% |
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 Margaret Hearne Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wilson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #1,043 of 1,297 | #12 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #1,132 of 1,296 | #12 of 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #997 of 1,300 | #12 of 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #827 of 1,485 | #6 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #995 of 1,377 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.1% | #834 of 1,379 | #8 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #409 of 1,414 | #6 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.2% | #936 of 937 | #8 of 8 |
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
423
+72 (+21%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 372
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 423 | 26.6 | 15.9:1 | 99% (420) |
| 2023-24 | 443 | 28.3 | 15.7:1 | 99% (440) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 25.8 | 16.7:1 | 99% (429) |
| 2020-21 | 351 | 22 | 15.9:1 | 99% (348) |
| 2017-18 | 424 | 28.4 | 14.9:1 | 99% (419) |
| 2015-16 | 460 | 27 | 17.0:1 | 99% (455) |
| 2010-11 | 497 | 30 | 16.6:1 | 98% (485) |
| 2000-01 | 618 | 33 | 18.7:1 | 86% (529) |
| 1990-91 | 372 | 30 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Margaret Hearne Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (424 to 423); teachers down 6% (28.4 to 26.6).
About Margaret Hearne Elementary
Margaret Hearne Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school based in Wilson, North Carolina. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 423 students.
Margaret Hearne Elementary is part of Wilson County Schools, where 25 schools serve 10,451 students.
About 57% of the student body at Margaret Hearne Elementary is Black. Other groups make up 33% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% White. County-wide, 39% of Wilson County residents are Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.
The school has 26.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 15.9 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. That is in line with the 96% average for public schools in Wilson County.
Margaret Hearne 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 20% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Margaret Hearne Elementary is 6.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (42.1% versus 48.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in North Carolina.
The school's county is Wilson County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $56,423 a year, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. Margaret Hearne Elementary shares Wilson County with 28 other public schools.
Wilson Academy of Virtual Education is about 0.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 67.4%; Margaret Hearne Elementary's is 42.1%, ranking 4th of 4.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Fringe.
Enrollment rose by 21% across 4 years, from 351 in 2020-21 to 423 in 2024-25.
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Wilson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,290
Census ACS
Median income
$56,423
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
29
12,482 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wilson County Schools
- James Hunt HighHigh · 1,115 students
- Fike HighHigh · 1,028 students
- Forest Hills MiddleMiddle · 654 students
- Beddingfield HighHigh · 653 students
- John W Jones ElementaryElementary · 601 students
- Rock Ridge ElementaryElementary · 476 students
Other schools in Wilson
- Sallie B Howard SchoolCombined · 1,228 students
- James Hunt HighHigh · 1,115 students
- Fike HighHigh · 1,028 students
- Wilson Preparatory AcademyCombined · 725 students
- Forest Hills MiddleMiddle · 654 students
- Beddingfield HighHigh · 653 students
Nearby schools
- Wilson Academy of Virtual Education0.4 mi · 44
- Wilson Early College Academy0.8 mi · 268
- Frederick Douglass Elementary0.8 mi · 339
- Sallie B Howard School0.9 mi · 1,228
- Wells Elementary1.0 mi · 383
- Eastern NC School for the Deaf1.1 mi · 42
Frequently asked questions
About Margaret Hearne ElementaryHow many students attend Margaret Hearne Elementary?
Margaret Hearne Elementary enrolls approximately 423 students in grades PK-05.
Is Margaret Hearne Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Margaret Hearne Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Margaret Hearne Elementary have?
Margaret Hearne Elementary employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Margaret Hearne Elementary?
Student demographics at Margaret Hearne Elementary are roughly 4% White, 33% Hispanic, 57% Black, 5% Two or more.
What district is Margaret Hearne Elementary in?
Margaret Hearne Elementary is part of Wilson County Schools.
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