Stocks Elementary

Stocks Elementary is a modestly sized primary school in Tarboro, North Carolina, part of Edgecombe County Public Schools. The school serves 389 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Edgecombe County Public Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 6,310 students; Stocks Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Stocks Elementary records that the largest single group is Black, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Stocks Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stocks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -17.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Edgecombe County shows the typical household earns roughly $51,265 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Stocks Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Edgecombe County (combined enrollment of about 8,573 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tarboro High, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Stocks Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Stocks Elementary's enrollment has decreased 28% since 2018, when it stood at 543 (now 389). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 15% to 4%.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.