Monroe Avenue Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary campus in Hamlet, North Carolina, Monroe Avenue Elementary serves 411 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Richmond County Schools.

Richmond County Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 6,504 students. Monroe Avenue Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Monroe Avenue Elementary logs that 55% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 20% White, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Native American. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Monroe Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Monroe Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of -10.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Richmond County indicate the typical household earns roughly $44,883 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Monroe Avenue Elementary is one of 15 public schools in Richmond County (combined enrollment of about 6,504 students).

Nearest neighbor: Richmond Early College High, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monroe Avenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monroe Avenue Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 41.8%.

Monroe Avenue Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Monroe Avenue Elementary has edged down 9%, going from 453 students in 2018 to 411 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 31% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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