Pittman Elementary Leadership Academy

Set in Enfield, North Carolina, Pittman Elementary Leadership Academy is an one-room-style primary school, overseen by Halifax County Schools. It teaches 147 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 69% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Across the 11 schools in Halifax County Schools (2,150 students total), Pittman Elementary Leadership Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Pittman Elementary Leadership Academy reports that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Pittman Elementary Leadership Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.9%; actual is 30.6%, a gap of -18.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Halifax County put median household income runs about $45,590, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pittman Elementary Leadership Academy is one of 23 public schools in Halifax County (combined enrollment of about 6,803 students).

Inborden Elementary S.T.E.A.M. Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.5 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pittman Elementary Leadership Academy ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 151 students in 2018 compared to 147 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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