Pinkston Street Elementary

Pinkston Street Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school in Henderson, North Carolina, overseen by Vance County Schools. The school works with 262 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 467.

Vance County Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 5,205 students. Pinkston Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Pinkston Street Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 24% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Vance County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Pinkston Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.4%.

Zooming out to the county, Vance County reports that median household earnings sit near $50,465, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Vance County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,495 students), of which Pinkston Street Elementary is one.

Vance Virtual Village Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pinkston Street Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pinkston Street Elementary's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 285 (now 262). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 16% to 24%.

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