Porters Neck Elementary

Porters Neck Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Wilmington, North Carolina, one of the schools within New Hanover County Schools. The school caters to 666 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 43% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Porters Neck Elementary is one of 42 schools operated by New Hanover County Schools, a district that teaches 24,791 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Porters Neck Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Porters Neck Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at Porters Neck Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against New Hanover County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Porters Neck Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.0%, the actual is 75.0%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (New Hanover County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,166 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, New Hanover County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,460 students), of which Porters Neck Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is American Leadership Academy-Coastal, roughly 1.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Porters Neck Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 68.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

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