Surf City Middle

As a mid-tier middle-grades school in Hampstead, North Carolina, Surf City Middle enrolls 752 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Pender County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Surf City Middle sits 24% larger than that benchmark.

Pender County Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,073 students. Surf City Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Surf City Middle reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder is composed of 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Surf City Middle has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Pender County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Surf City Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.3%, the actual is 67.9%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pender County indicate median household income runs about $80,396, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pender County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,073 students), of which Surf City Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Surf City Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Surf City Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

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