Enrollment
326
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LENOIR COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 370261000596
Southeast Elementary
201 McDaniels Street, Kinston, NC 28501 · (252) 527-4210 · Lenoir County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL326 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
316 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 82%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 91 | 28% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 44% larger than its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
43.3%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
35.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.2%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Southeast Elementary
Southeast Elementary's state test result (40.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southeast Elementary this school | 326 | 96.9% | 40.7% |
| Walker-Spivey Elementary Fayetteville | 345 | 98.6% | 32.5% |
| Windsor Elementary Windsor | 336 | 99.1% | 50.0% |
| Gaston STEM Leadership Academy Gaston | 284 | 98.9% | 43.5% |
| Wadesboro Primary Wadesboro | 295 | 99.0% | 37.5% |
| West Bertie Elementary Kelford | 277 | 97.8% | 48.5% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Southeast Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Lenoir County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #1,084 of 1,297 | #8 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #1,201 of 1,296 | #8 of 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #839 of 1,300 | #6 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 326 | #1,131 of 1,485 | #8 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #362 of 1,377 | #4 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.9% | #1,278 of 1,379 | #8 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.9% | #1,000 of 1,414 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +43.0% | #42 of 369 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
326
+98 (+43%) vs 2020
-6% since 2000-01, when it was 346
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 9.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 326 | 24 | 13.6:1 | 97% (316) |
| 2023-24 | 270 | 28.7 | 9.4:1 | 99% (267) |
| 2022-23 | 190 | 22.9 | 8.3:1 | 97% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 228 | 25 | 9.1:1 | 99% (225) |
| 2017-18 | 228 | 27.6 | 8.3:1 | 99% (225) |
| 2015-16 | 270 | 19 | 14.2:1 | 99% (267) |
| 2010-11 | 253 | 16 | 15.8:1 | 97% (245) |
| 2000-01 | 346 | 32 | 10.8:1 | 99% (343) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Southeast Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 43% (228 to 326); teachers down 13% (27.6 to 24).
About Southeast Elementary
Southeast Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Kinston, North Carolina. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 326 students. The average for elementary schools in North Carolina is about 467 students, so this school is 30% smaller than average.
Federal data list 17 schools in Lenoir County Public Schools, with 8,331 students enrolled.
Black students make up 83% of enrollment at Southeast Elementary. The remaining students are 7% White, 5% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Lenoir County is about 39% Black. Southeast Elementary's diversity index is 31%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 24 full-time positions, a ratio of 13.6:1. That is lower than the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 97%. For comparison, public schools in Lenoir County average 99%.
Measured against North Carolina public elementary schools, Southeast Elementary receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Southeast Elementary's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (40.7%) and its predicted rate (49.2%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of North Carolina schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Lenoir County show that the median household income is $45,143, roughly 16% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 17%. Southeast Elementary is one of 18 public schools in the county.
Of nearby public schools, Rochelle Middle is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. In all, 7 other public schools sit within five miles of Southeast Elementary. Its average proficiency rate of 40.7% is below the 47.2% average for nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Distant. That means it sits in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The school's enrollment figures are 228 for 2020-21 and 326 for 2024-25. Differences this large can reflect a change in grade levels, a boundary change, or a merger. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 9.1:1 to 13.6:1.
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Lenoir County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
54,919
Census ACS
Median income
$45,143
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
8,480 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lenoir County Public Schools
- North Lenoir HighHigh · 957 students
- Contentnea-Savannah SchoolElementary · 789 students
- South Lenoir HighHigh · 721 students
- Kinston HighHigh · 659 students
- Woodington MiddleMiddle · 584 students
- La Grange ElementaryElementary · 547 students
Other schools in Kinston
- Contentnea-Savannah SchoolElementary · 789 students
- Kinston HighHigh · 659 students
- Woodington MiddleMiddle · 584 students
- Rochelle MiddleMiddle · 517 students
- Northwest ElementaryElementary · 504 students
- Northeast ElementaryElementary · 465 students
Other Southeast Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 13 states are named Southeast Elementary. Southeast Elementary is the 9th largest of the 17.
- Southeast Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 817 students
- Southeast Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 816 students
- Southeast Elementary SchoolAnkeny, IA · 585 students
- Southeast Elementary SchoolMeridian, MS · 562 students
- SOUTHEAST ELEM.KANSAS CITY, MO · 548 students
Nearby schools
- Rochelle Middle0.6 mi · 517
- Children's Village Academy0.6 mi · 149
- Lenoir County Early College High1.5 mi · 246
- Northeast Elementary1.7 mi · 465
- Northwest Elementary2.3 mi · 504
- Kinston High2.6 mi · 659
Frequently asked questions
About Southeast ElementaryHow many students attend Southeast Elementary?
Southeast Elementary enrolls approximately 326 students in grades PK-05.
Is Southeast Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Southeast Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Southeast Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Southeast Elementary is approximately 13.6:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Southeast Elementary?
At Southeast Elementary, the student body is approximately 7% White, 5% Hispanic, 83% Black, 5% Two or more.
Is Southeast Elementary public or private?
Southeast Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lenoir County Public Schools.
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