Tar Heel School

Tar Heel School is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Tar Heel, North Carolina, run under Bladen County Schools, serveing 449 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Within Bladen County Schools, which oversees 12 schools and 3,928 students, Tar Heel School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Tar Heel School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% Black, 26% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Bladen County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tar Heel School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -10.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bladen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $42,422 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tar Heel School is one of 15 public schools in Bladen County (combined enrollment of about 4,756 students).

The closest other public school is Dublin Primary, roughly 7.0 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Tar Heel School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 34%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 449 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 30% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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