Tiller School

Tiller School is a K-5 school of modestly sized scale in Beaufort, North Carolina, run under Tiller School, caters to 206 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Tiller School sits 56% smaller than that benchmark.

Tiller School is the operating authority for Tiller School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tiller School records that 77% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Tiller School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Carteret County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,322 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Carteret County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,053 students), of which Tiller School is one.

Beaufort Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Tiller School.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. Tiller School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tiller School has changed only slightly, going from 206 students in 2018 to 206 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 84% to 77%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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