Pumpkin Center Intermediate

Set in Lincolnton, North Carolina, Pumpkin Center Intermediate is a cozy primary school, part of Lincoln County Schools. It hosts 295 students across grades 3 through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Pumpkin Center Intermediate sits 37% below that benchmark.

Across the 22 schools in Lincoln County Schools (11,710 students total), Pumpkin Center Intermediate accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Pumpkin Center Intermediate reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Pumpkin Center Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lincoln County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pumpkin Center Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 60.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Lincoln County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,016, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Pumpkin Center Intermediate is one of 25 public schools in Lincoln County (combined enrollment of about 14,428 students).

Pumpkin Center Primary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Pumpkin Center Intermediate. On composite proficiency, Pumpkin Center Intermediate comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pumpkin Center Intermediate has shrank 20%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 295 in 2025.

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