Southport Elementary

Located at 701 West 9th Street, in Southport, North Carolina, Southport Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school that enrolls 413 students (grades K through 5), operated by Brunswick County Schools.

Brunswick County Schools comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 13,561 students; Southport Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Southport Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest looks like 10% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Brunswick County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Southport Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Southport Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 59.4%, a residual of +10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brunswick County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,024 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Brunswick County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,069 students), Southport Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is South Brunswick Middle, roughly 5.8 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Southport Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Southport Elementary's enrollment has fell 31% since 2018, when it stood at 595 (now 413). Over the same period, the White share declined from 81% to 72%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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