Scotland Neck Elementary Leadership Acad

Scotland Neck Elementary Leadership Acad is one of the micro-enrollment primary schools in Scotland Neck, North Carolina, operated by Halifax County Schools, with 140 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 70% below typical.

Halifax County Schools comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 2,150 students; Scotland Neck Elementary Leadership Acad is among them.

On demographics, Scotland Neck Elementary Leadership Acad lists that the largest single group is Black, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Halifax County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Scotland Neck Elementary Leadership Acad tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Scotland Neck Elementary Leadership Acad performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -8.0 points.

In the area at large, Halifax County reports that median household income runs about $45,590, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Halifax County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,803 students), Scotland Neck Elementary Leadership Acad is one campus in the mix.

Hobgood Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Scotland Neck Elementary Leadership Acad comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 41%: 237 students in 2018 compared to 140 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 91% to 79% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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