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Enrollment
666
Elementary
DISTRICT 425 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW HANOVER COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370333003520
Porters Neck Elementary
416 Edgewater Club Rd, Wilmington, NC 28411 · (910) 251-2975 · New Hanover County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL666 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 75% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
149 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 118 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 136 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (118) is 33% larger than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
70.2%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
77.2%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.0%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Porters Neck Elementary
Porters Neck Elementary's state test result (75.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porters Neck Elementary this school | 666 | 22.4% | 75.0% |
| Rock Springs Elementary Denver | 639 | 21.4% | 79.6% |
| St James Elementary Denver | 653 | 27.0% | 71.0% |
| Sherwood Forest Elementary Winston Salem | 670 | 19.0% | 87.5% |
| Moyock Elementary Moyock | 740 | 21.1% | 67.8% |
| McDeeds Creek Elementary Southern Pines | 707 | 21.1% | 81.1% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Porters Neck Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In New Hanover County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #133 of 1,297 | #7 of 25 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #163 of 1,296 | #9 of 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #131 of 1,300 | #6 of 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 666 | #225 of 1,485 | #1 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,030 of 1,377 | #27 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.4% | #1,227 of 1,379 | #21 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.4% | #1,342 of 1,414 | #24 of 27 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
666
+226 (+51%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 14.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 666 | 41.6 | 16.0:1 | 22% (149) |
| 2023-24 | 655 | 41.3 | 15.9:1 | 23% (149) |
| 2022-23 | 605 | 40.7 | 14.9:1 | 25% (149) |
| 2020-21 | 440 | 31 | 14.2:1 | 21% (92) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Porters Neck Elementary.
About Porters Neck Elementary
This page covers Porters Neck Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school in Wilmington, North Carolina. It had 666 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in North Carolina enroll about 467 students on average.
The district, New Hanover County Schools, operates 42 schools serving 24,791 students.
More than half of the students at Porters Neck Elementary are White (80%). Next come 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That is in line with New Hanover County, where about 77% of residents are White. The diversity index for Porters Neck Elementary is 35%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 41.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 16.0:1. The gap from the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina is 1.2 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 22%. The average for public schools in New Hanover County is 67%.
On the allk12 Grade, Porters Neck Elementary lands at A-, ahead of 75% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Compared with North Carolina schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Porters Neck Elementary's results are 3.0 points above predicted: 75.0% against 72.0%.
The school's county is New Hanover County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $75,166, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. There are 50 public schools in the county, enrolling about 27,460, Porters Neck Elementary among them.
A public school about 1.8 miles away, American Leadership Academy-Coastal, is the closest to Porters Neck Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 6 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 68.2% proficiency; Porters Neck Elementary posts 75.0%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Porters Neck Elementary enrolled 440 in 2020-21 and 666 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.2:1 to 16.0:1.
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New Hanover County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
235,229
Census ACS
Median income
$75,166
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
27,460 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in New Hanover County Schools
- Emsley A Laney HighHigh · 2,243 students
- John T Hoggard HighHigh · 2,082 students
- Eugene Ashley HighHigh · 1,893 students
- New Hanover HighHigh · 1,437 students
- Charles P Murray MiddleMiddle · 907 students
- Roland-Grise MiddleMiddle · 878 students
Other schools in Wilmington
- Emsley A Laney HighHigh · 2,243 students
- John T Hoggard HighHigh · 2,082 students
- Eugene Ashley HighHigh · 1,893 students
- New Hanover HighHigh · 1,437 students
- American Leadership Academy-CoastalCombined · 1,002 students
- Charles P Murray MiddleMiddle · 907 students
Nearby schools
- American Leadership Academy-Coastal1.8 mi · 1,002
- Ogden Elementary2.5 mi · 619
- Dr Hubert Eaton Sr Elem3.7 mi · 461
- M C S Noble Middle4.2 mi · 690
- John J Blair Elementary4.3 mi · 451
- Murrayville Elementary4.5 mi · 573
Frequently asked questions
About Porters Neck ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Porters Neck Elementary?
Porters Neck Elementary enrolls approximately 666 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Porters Neck Elementary serve?
Porters Neck Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Porters Neck Elementary?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Porters Neck Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Porters Neck Elementary?
Student demographics at Porters Neck Elementary are roughly 80% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Porters Neck Elementary public or private?
Porters Neck Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by New Hanover County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.