Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy

At 1360 Martin L King Jr Dr in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy operates as a very small high school. It has an enrollment of 199 students in grades 6 through 12. On average, high schools in North Carolina enroll around 761, and this school is 74% below that mark.

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Black students make up 43% of enrollment at Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy, the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 23% multiracial, 16% Hispanic, 13% White, and 6% Native American. Census estimates put the Black share of Bladen County's population at about 32%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.

Teacher count: 13.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.2:1. The average for high schools in North Carolina, 19.6:1, is higher. Roughly 98% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Bladen County average a similar 98%.

Bladen County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $42,422 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 19%. Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy shares Bladen County with 14 other public schools.

Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy's closest public school neighbor is Elizabethtown Middle, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 3 other public schools are within five miles.

For locale, NCES codes Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy as Rural: Distant. Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy is run as a public charter school.

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 199, up from 145 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 15.2 students per teacher, compared with 9.1 in 2020-21.

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