Oaks Road Academy

Set in New Bern, North Carolina, Oaks Road Academy is a cozy K-5 school, one of the schools within Craven County Board of Education. It serves 352 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Oaks Road Academy sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Oaks Road Academy is one of 26 schools operated by Craven County Board of Education, a district that teaches 12,152 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Oaks Road Academy logs that the largest single group is Black at 33%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 30% Hispanic, 18% White, 10% multiracial, 8% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Oaks Road Academy reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Craven County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oaks Road Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 38.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Craven County indicate median household income runs about $65,873, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Craven County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), Oaks Road Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is J.T. Barber Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oaks Road Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oaks Road Academy at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 60.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Oaks Road Academy's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 352). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 46% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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