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Does Spring Creek Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
804
Elementary
DISTRICT 569 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 370488002498
Spring Creek Elementary
1050 St John Church Rd, Goldsboro, NC 27534 · (919) 751-7155 · Wayne County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL804 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 57% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
15.2:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
798 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 82%
Community
1
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 | 27 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 154 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 147 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 167 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 143 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 166 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (154) is 7% smaller than its 4th grade class (166).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
50.7%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
63.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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
56.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% 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 Spring Creek Elementary
Spring Creek Elementary's state test result (56.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Creek Elementary this school | 804 | 99.3% | 56.6% |
| B F Grady Elementary Albertson | 865 | 99.7% | 41.3% |
| Huntingtowne Farms Elementary Charlotte | 776 | 99.6% | 38.3% |
| Balfour Elementary Asheboro | 558 | 98.0% | 44.8% |
| Selma Elementary Selma | 794 | 99.6% | 45.1% |
| Knollwood Elementary Salisbury | 585 | 99.5% | 28.0% |
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 Spring Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.6% | #616 of 1,297 | #5 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.1% | #536 of 1,296 | #6 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #597 of 1,300 | #6 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 804 | #80 of 1,485 | #1 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #807 of 1,377 | #4 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #893 of 1,379 | #12 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #452 of 1,414 | #9 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.9% | #855 of 937 | #11 of 12 |
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
804
-30 (-4%) vs 2020
+21% since 2000-01, when it was 663
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 804 | 53 | 15.2:1 | 99% (798) |
| 2023-24 | 823 | 55.9 | 14.7:1 | 100% (820) |
| 2022-23 | 829 | 51.9 | 16.0:1 | 99% (822) |
| 2020-21 | 834 | 60 | 13.9:1 | 100% (831) |
| 2017-18 | 828 | 63.5 | 13.0:1 | 100% (825) |
| 2015-16 | 853 | 56 | 15.2:1 | 100% (850) |
| 2010-11 | 983 | 61 | 16.1:1 | 69% (683) |
| 2000-01 | 663 | 38 | 17.4:1 | 52% (344) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spring Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (828 to 804); teachers down 17% (63.5 to 53).
About Spring Creek Elementary
Spring Creek Elementary is a large elementary school in Goldsboro, North Carolina, administered by Wayne County Public Schools. It is open to students in pre-K through 4 and enrolls 804 students. That is 72% above the average of about 467 students for elementary schools in North Carolina.
Within Wayne County Public Schools, Spring Creek Elementary is one of 33 schools. The district enrolls 17,150 students.
More than half of the students at Spring Creek Elementary are Hispanic (63%). The rest of enrollment is 22% White, 10% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Wayne County's population at about 14%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Spring Creek Elementary scores 54%.
There are about 15.2 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Spring Creek Elementary, which has 53. The average ratio among elementary schools in North Carolina is similar, at 14.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Spring Creek Elementary is about 99%. The average for public schools in Wayne County is similar, at 98%.
Spring Creek Elementary holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 57% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Spring Creek Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of North Carolina schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 56.6%; the prediction is 48.5%.
Wayne County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $59,733, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Wayne County's 36 public schools enroll about 18,481 students and include Spring Creek Elementary.
Spring Creek Elementary's nearest public school is Spring Creek Middle (about 3.8 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are 3 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 48.2%; Spring Creek Elementary's is 56.6%, ranking 3rd of 7.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 804, down from 834 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 13.9 in 2020-21 to 15.2 in 2024-25.
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Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
118,652
Census ACS
Median income
$59,733
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
36
18,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wayne County Public Schools
- Charles B Aycock HighHigh · 1,138 students
- Southern Wayne HighHigh · 1,007 students
- Norwayne MiddleMiddle · 848 students
- Eastern Wayne HighHigh · 781 students
- Spring Creek HighHigh · 732 students
- Brogden PrimaryElementary · 689 students
Other schools in Goldsboro
- Eastern Wayne HighHigh · 781 students
- Wayne Preparatory AcademyCombined · 765 students
- Meadow Lane ElementaryElementary · 674 students
- Rosewood ElementaryElementary · 650 students
- Eastern Wayne ElementaryElementary · 597 students
- Tommy's Road ElementaryElementary · 545 students
Other Spring Creek Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Spring Creek Elementary. Spring Creek Elementary is the largest of the 16.
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolChattanooga, TN · 698 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolCOLLEGE STATION, TX · 696 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolGARLAND, TX · 673 students
- SPRING CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBONITA SPRINGS, FL · 664 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 534 students
Nearby schools
- Spring Creek Middle3.8 mi · 571
- Spring Creek High4.1 mi · 732
- La Grange Elementary4.8 mi · 547
- E B Frink Middle5.0 mi · 488
- Eastern Wayne Elementary6.3 mi · 597
- Wayne Middle / High Academy6.6 mi · 92
Frequently asked questions
About Spring Creek ElementaryHow many students attend Spring Creek Elementary?
Spring Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 804 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Spring Creek Elementary serve?
Spring Creek Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Spring Creek Elementary?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at Spring Creek Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Spring Creek Elementary?
Student demographics at Spring Creek Elementary are roughly 22% White, 63% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Spring Creek Elementary?
Spring Creek Elementary is overseen by Wayne County Public Schools in Wayne County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.