Mariam Boyd Elementary

Mariam Boyd Elementary is an elementary school of small scale in Warrenton, North Carolina, part of Warren County Schools, serveing 291 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Within Warren County Schools, which oversees 6 schools and 1,547 students, Mariam Boyd Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Mariam Boyd Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, Warren County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Mariam Boyd Elementary reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at Mariam Boyd Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mariam Boyd Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.9%; actual is 21.9%, a gap of -27.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Warren County indicate median household income runs about $50,638, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Warren County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,687 students), of which Mariam Boyd Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Warren Early College High, roughly 0.6 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mariam Boyd Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 313 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 10% to 14% over that span.

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