Enrollment
205
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 370132001769
Princeville Elementary
306 Walston Street, Tarboro, NC 27886 · (252) 823-4718 · Edgecombe County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL205 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
15.3:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
199 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 82%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 15 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 23 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 87% larger than its 5th grade class (23).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
30.1%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
39.7%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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
37.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.2%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Princeville Elementary
Princeville Elementary's state test result (37.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princeville Elementary this school | 205 | 97.1% | 37.7% |
| Morven Elementary Morven | 197 | 98.5% | 30.3% |
| Erwin Montessori Greensboro | 221 | 98.6% | 51.3% |
| Cook Literacy Model School Winston-Salem | 228 | 98.7% | 43.1% |
| R Freeman Sch of Engineering Wilmington | 241 | 98.8% | 15.5% |
| Movement School Northwest Charlotte | 208 | 98.6% | N/A |
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 Princeville Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Edgecombe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #1,149 of 1,297 | #3 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #1,141 of 1,296 | #4 of 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #1,189 of 1,300 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 205 | #1,373 of 1,485 | #12 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #850 of 1,377 | #6 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.2% | #1,129 of 1,379 | #5 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.1% | #995 of 1,414 | #10 of 12 |
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
205
+33 (+19%) vs 2020
-44% since 2000-01, when it was 368
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 205 | 13.4 | 15.3:1 | 97% (199) |
| 2023-24 | 207 | 17 | 12.2:1 | 96% (198) |
| 2022-23 | 219 | 15 | 14.6:1 | 99% (216) |
| 2020-21 | 172 | 16 | 10.8:1 | 98% (169) |
| 2017-18 | 180 | 15.5 | 11.6:1 | 98% (176) |
| 2015-16 | 223 | 16 | 13.9:1 | 99% (220) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 25 | 16.1:1 | 91% (365) |
| 2000-01 | 368 | 26 | 14.2:1 | 64% (234) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Princeville Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (180 to 205); teachers down 14% (15.5 to 13.4).
About Princeville Elementary
At 306 Walston Street in Tarboro, North Carolina, Princeville Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary school. The latest federal count shows 205 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 467-student average for elementary schools in North Carolina, enrollment here is 56% lower.
Edgecombe County Public Schools serves 6,310 students across 19 schools.
Roughly 73% of students at Princeville Elementary are Black. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 6% White, and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Edgecombe County residents are about 56% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 43% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 15.3:1 comes from the school's 13.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 97% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Edgecombe County average 99%.
The allk12 Grade for Princeville Elementary is D. Compared with North Carolina public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 12% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with North Carolina schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Princeville Elementary's results are 11.5 points below predicted: 37.7% against 49.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Edgecombe County show that the median household income is $51,265, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and roughly 19% of residents are in poverty. Besides Princeville Elementary, Edgecombe County has 26 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Princeville Elementary to another public school is about 1.3 miles, to W A Pattillo Middle. Counting only straight-line distance, 6 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Princeville Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Town: Distant, meaning it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment is up 19% from 2020-21, when Princeville Elementary had 172 students, to 2024-25, when it had 205. The ratio was 10.8:1 in 2020-21 and 15.3:1 in 2024-25.
The Princeville Elementary community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Edgecombe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
48,736
Census ACS
Median income
$51,265
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
8,573 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edgecombe County Public Schools
- SouthWest Edgecombe HighHigh · 798 students
- G W Carver ElementaryElementary · 550 students
- Martin Millennium AcademyElementary · 548 students
- G W Bulluck ElementaryElementary · 535 students
- Tarboro HighHigh · 496 students
- Stocks ElementaryElementary · 389 students
Other schools in Tarboro
- North East Carolina PrepCombined · 1,107 students
- Martin Millennium AcademyElementary · 548 students
- Tarboro HighHigh · 496 students
- Stocks ElementaryElementary · 389 students
- North Edgecombe HighHigh · 358 students
- W A Pattillo MiddleMiddle · 289 students
Other Princeville Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Princeville Elementary. Princeville Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Princeville Elementary SchoolPrinceville, IL · 292 students
Nearby schools
- W A Pattillo Middle1.3 mi · 289
- Martin Millennium Academy1.6 mi · 548
- Tarboro High2.1 mi · 496
- Stocks Elementary2.2 mi · 389
- Edgecombe Early College High2.7 mi · 171
- North East Carolina Prep3.1 mi · 1,107
Frequently asked questions
About Princeville ElementaryHow large is Princeville Elementary?
Princeville Elementary enrolls approximately 205 students in grades PK-05.
Is Princeville Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Princeville Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Princeville Elementary have?
Princeville Elementary employs 13 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Princeville Elementary?
Student demographics at Princeville Elementary are roughly 6% White, 17% Hispanic, 73% Black, 4% Two or more.
What district is Princeville Elementary in?
Princeville Elementary is part of Edgecombe County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.