Parkwood Elementary

Parkwood Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school in Jacksonville, North Carolina, overseen by Onslow County Schools, serves 457 students, covering grades K through 5.

Onslow County Schools comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 27,397 students; Parkwood Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Parkwood Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 18% Black, 11% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 53% of students at Parkwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Parkwood Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.2%.

Around the school, census data for Onslow County shows median household earnings sit near $68,148, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Onslow County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,501 students), Parkwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Northwoods Park Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 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), Parkwood Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.2%.

Parkwood Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Parkwood Elementary's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 539 (now 457). Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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