South Mebane Elementary

South Mebane Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Mebane, North Carolina, part of Alamance-Burlington Schools, serveing 506 students in grades K through 5.

Alamance-Burlington Schools runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 22,661 students. South Mebane Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, South Mebane Elementary shows that 34% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 33% White, 16% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, South Mebane Elementary logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alamance County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, South Mebane Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of -5.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Alamance County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,651 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Alamance County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,737 students), South Mebane Elementary is one campus in the mix.

E M Yoder Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, South Mebane Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Mebane Elementary has fell 20%, going from 629 students in 2018 to 506 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 33% across the same window.

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