Princeville Elementary

Located at 306 Walston Street, in Tarboro, North Carolina, Princeville Elementary is a tight-knit primary school that teaches 205 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Edgecombe County Public Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Princeville Elementary sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

Edgecombe County Public Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 6,310 students; Princeville Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Princeville Elementary lists that 73% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Princeville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 37.7%, a residual of -11.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Edgecombe County indicate median household income runs about $51,265, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Princeville Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Edgecombe County (combined enrollment of about 8,573 students).

The closest other public school is W A Pattillo Middle, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Princeville Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 28.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 14%: 180 students in 2018 compared to 205 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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