Trent Park Elementary

Trent Park Elementary is one of the compact elementary schools in New Bern, North Carolina, operated by Craven County Board of Education, with 390 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Craven County Board of Education comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 12,152 students; Trent Park Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Trent Park Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Black (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 22% Asian, 19% White, 16% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Trent Park Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Craven County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Trent Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Craven County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $65,873 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Craven County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), Trent Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grover C Fields Middle, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Trent Park Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 28% to 19%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.