Northside Elementary

Northside Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, overseen by Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools. The school works with 419 students in grades K through 5.

Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,014 students. Northside Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Northside Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 31% Black, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pasquotank County runs at roughly 91%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Northside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 54.5%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Pasquotank County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,589 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Northside Elementary is one of 14 public schools in Pasquotank County (combined enrollment of about 5,774 students).

Pasquotank County High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northside Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northside Elementary has edged down 17%, going from 502 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 62% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Northside Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.