Meadow Lane Elementary

Meadow Lane Elementary is an average-sized elementary school in Goldsboro, North Carolina, part of Wayne County Public Schools. The school educates 674 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Meadow Lane Elementary sits 44% above that benchmark.

Wayne County Public Schools comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 17,150 students; Meadow Lane Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Meadow Lane Elementary records that 38% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 33% White, 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at Meadow Lane Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Meadow Lane Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.9%.

Around the school, census data for Wayne County shows median household earnings sit near $59,733, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wayne County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students), of which Meadow Lane Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Greenwood Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meadow Lane Elementary. On composite proficiency, Meadow Lane Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 13%: 595 students in 2018 compared to 674 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.