Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary

Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary, a reasonably sized K-5 school in Vanceboro, North Carolina, overseen by Craven County Board of Education, enrolls 494 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Craven County Board of Education runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 12,152 students. Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 33% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Craven County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -8.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Craven County indicate median household income runs about $65,873, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Craven County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), of which Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is West Craven High, roughly 4.9 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 630 (now 494). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 55% to 46%.

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