Overhills Elementary

Overhills Elementary operates as a large K-5 school in Spring Lake, North Carolina, operated by Harnett County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 866 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Overhills Elementary sits 85% larger than that benchmark.

Overhills Elementary is one of 29 schools operated by Harnett County Schools, a district that teaches 20,095 students overall.

Demographically, Overhills Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 31% Black, 22% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Harnett County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at Overhills Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Harnett County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Overhills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.2%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of -8.4 points.

Across the wider county, Harnett County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,287 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harnett County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,611 students), of which Overhills Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Overhills Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Overhills Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 42.6%.

Overhills Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 954 students in 2018 compared to 866 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 40% to 31% over that span.

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