Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary

As a sizable elementary school in Rose Hill, North Carolina, Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary caters to 1,118 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Duplin County Schools. That puts it 139% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Duplin County Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 9,822 students; Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary logs that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 20% Black, 9% White. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.4%; this one comes in at 29.6%, -18.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Duplin County reports that median household earnings sit near $55,148, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary is one of 13 public schools in Duplin County (combined enrollment of about 9,822 students).

The closest other public school is Wallace-Rose Hill High, roughly 5.6 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.4%.

Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary has showed little movement, going from 1,142 students in 2018 to 1,118 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 55% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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