Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy

Set in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy is a minimally staffed four-year high school, overseen by Paul R Brown Leadership Academy. It works with 199 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy sits 74% below that benchmark.

Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy is a school of Paul R Brown Leadership Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy logs that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 23% multiracial, 16% Hispanic, 13% White, 6% Native American. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bladen County indicate median household income runs about $42,422, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy is one of 15 public schools in Bladen County (combined enrollment of about 4,756 students).

Elizabethtown Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a low-density setting. As a public charter, Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy has ticked up 11%, going from 180 students in 2018 to 199 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 65% to 43% over that span.

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