Pasquotank Elementary

Pasquotank Elementary is a compact elementary school in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, one of the schools within Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools. The school instructs 254 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 46% below typical.

Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,014 students; Pasquotank Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pasquotank Elementary records that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 26% Hispanic, 23% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Pasquotank Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pasquotank County runs at roughly 91%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Pasquotank County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,589 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pasquotank Elementary is one of 14 public schools in Pasquotank County (combined enrollment of about 5,774 students).

P W Moore Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pasquotank Elementary.

Pasquotank Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 6-year window, the student count fell 23%: 331 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2024. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 19% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.