Parkton Elementary

Set in Parkton, North Carolina, Parkton Elementary is a mid-tier primary school, one of the schools within Public Schools of Robeson County. It works with 592 students across grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Across the 36 schools in Public Schools of Robeson County (20,856 students total), Parkton Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkton Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 26% Black, 23% White, 12% multiracial, 8% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.5:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Parkton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parkton 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 39.7%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Across the wider county, Robeson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $41,978 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Parkton Elementary is one of 40 public schools in Robeson County (combined enrollment of about 21,625 students).

Nearest neighbor: C Wayne Collier Elementary, around 5.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parkton Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Parkton Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 603 (now 592). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 23% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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