Pollocksville Elementary

As an one-room-style K-5 school in Pollocksville, North Carolina, Pollocksville Elementary enrolls 120 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Jones County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Pollocksville Elementary sits 74% smaller than that benchmark.

Pollocksville Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Jones County Schools, a district that caters to 1,016 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pollocksville Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 37% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pollocksville Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.1%; this one delivers 60.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jones County indicate median household income runs about $59,641, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pollocksville Elementary is one of 5 public schools in Jones County (combined enrollment of about 1,016 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jones Senior High School, around 6.7 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Pollocksville Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

Pollocksville Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 139 students in 2018 compared to 120 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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