Prospect Elementary

As a roomy K-5 school in Maxton, North Carolina, Prospect Elementary hosts 775 students from grades pre-K through 8, one of the schools within Public Schools of Robeson County. Enrollment runs roughly 66% above the state mean of about 467.

Prospect Elementary is one of 36 schools operated by Public Schools of Robeson County, a district that teaches 20,856 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Prospect Elementary records that 91% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% White.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Prospect Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Robeson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $41,978 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. In all, Robeson County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,625 students), of which Prospect Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Purnell Swett High, roughly 2.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prospect Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.8%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Prospect Elementary's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 939 (now 775). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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