Rocky Point Elementary

Rocky Point Elementary, a mid-tier K-5 school in Rocky Point, North Carolina, run under Pender County Schools, serves 403 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Rocky Point Elementary is one of 19 schools operated by Pender County Schools, a district that caters to 11,073 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Rocky Point Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 36% White, 14% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Pender County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Rocky Point Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pender County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rocky Point Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Pender County put median household earnings sit near $80,396, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Rocky Point Elementary is one of 19 public schools in Pender County (combined enrollment of about 11,073 students).

Heide Trask High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rocky Point Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.3%.

Rocky Point Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Rocky Point Elementary's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 403). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 40% to 36%.

On the community side, members of the Rocky Point Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.