McDougle Elementary

McDougle Elementary is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, operated by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, works with 497 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 11,392 students. McDougle Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, McDougle Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 15% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, McDougle Elementary shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting McDougle Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Orange County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, McDougle Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.3%, the actual is 70.2%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,089 per year, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Orange County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,582 students), of which McDougle Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is McDougle Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McDougle Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 69.2%.

McDougle Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McDougle Elementary has shrank 6%, going from 531 students in 2018 to 497 in 2025.

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