Sandhills Farm Life Elementary

Sandhills Farm Life Elementary operates as a modestly sized primary school in Carthage, North Carolina, operated by Moore County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 379 students spanning grades K through 5.

Moore County Schools comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 13,085 students; Sandhills Farm Life Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Sandhills Farm Life Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 76%. Beyond that, the school lists 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Sandhills Farm Life Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Moore County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sandhills Farm Life Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 74.2%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Moore County put median household earnings sit near $86,080, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Moore County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,708 students), Sandhills Farm Life Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Union Pines High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Sandhills Farm Life Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sandhills Farm Life Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 66.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sandhills Farm Life Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 48% since 2018, when it stood at 726 (now 379). The White share of enrollment edged down from 83% to 76% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Sandhills Farm Life Elementary typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.