Tommy's Road Elementary

Tommy's Road Elementary is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in Goldsboro, North Carolina, operated by Wayne County Public Schools, educateing 545 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Tommy's Road Elementary is one of 33 schools operated by Wayne County Public Schools, a district that instructs 17,150 students overall.

On demographics, Tommy's Road Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 21% White, 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Tommy's Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 43.2%, a residual of -5.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household income runs about $59,733, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Wayne County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students), of which Tommy's Road Elementary is one.

Wayne Early / Middle College High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tommy's Road Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Tommy's Road Elementary's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 670 (now 545). Over the same period, the White share declined from 33% to 21%.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Tommy's Road Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.