Morehead City Primary

Morehead City Primary is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Morehead City, North Carolina, one of the schools within Carteret County Public Schools, educateing 502 students in grades pre-K through 3.

Carteret County Public Schools comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,847 students; Morehead City Primary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Morehead City Primary lists that White students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Morehead City Primary records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Carteret County (around 76%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Morehead City Primary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +13.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Carteret County shows median household earnings sit near $72,322, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Carteret County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,053 students), of which Morehead City Primary is one.

West Carteret High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Morehead City Primary. On composite proficiency, Morehead City Primary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Morehead City Primary's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 585 (now 502). Over the same period, the White share rose from 64% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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