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How has Vanstory Hills Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
514
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001102135
Vanstory Hills Elementary
400 Foxhall Road, Fayetteville, NC 28303 · (910) 483-0809 · Cumberland County
GRADES 02–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL514 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
511 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 141 | 27% |
| Grade 3 | 138 | 27% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 24% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
64.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
69.4%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
68.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in North Carolina's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Vanstory Hills Elementary
Vanstory Hills Elementary's state test result (68.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanstory Hills Elementary this school | 514 | 99.4% | 68.7% |
| Central Elementary Eden | 521 | 98.1% | 41.0% |
| Northeast Elementary Pikeville | 497 | 99.4% | 55.8% |
| Peachland-Polkton Elem Peachland | 473 | 99.4% | 55.2% |
| Ida Rankin Elementary School Mount Holly | 533 | 97.6% | 61.6% |
| Chocowinity Primary Chocowinity | 484 | 98.8% | 86.4% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Vanstory Hills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.7% | #262 of 1,297 | #4 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #346 of 1,296 | #6 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #238 of 1,300 | #5 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 514 | #570 of 1,485 | #19 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #975 of 1,377 | #31 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #248 of 1,379 | #16 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #260 of 1,414 | #8 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.4% | #735 of 937 | #26 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
514
+53 (+11%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 536
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 514 | 32.5 | 15.8:1 | 99% (511) |
| 2023-24 | 480 | 33.3 | 14.4:1 | 99% (477) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 35 | 13.4:1 | 99% (466) |
| 2020-21 | 461 | 36 | 12.8:1 | 98% (450) |
| 2017-18 | 549 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 40% (220) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 31 | 16.6:1 | 44% (225) |
| 2010-11 | 526 | 36 | 14.6:1 | 34% (177) |
| 2000-01 | 631 | 28 | 22.5:1 | 30% (187) |
| 1990-91 | 536 | 27 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vanstory Hills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (549 to 514); teachers down 7% (35 to 32.5).
About Vanstory Hills Elementary
Vanstory Hills Elementary is an elementary school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, according to federal school records. The school teaches grades 2 through 5 and enrolls 514 students.
Cumberland County Schools enrolls 49,002 students in 86 schools, including Vanstory Hills Elementary.
No group is above 50% at Vanstory Hills Elementary; the largest is White, at 44%. The school is also 28% Black, 16% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. Among Cumberland County residents, the White share is about 42%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Vanstory Hills Elementary scores 69%.
With 32.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.8:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1, 1.0 fewer students per teacher than here. Roughly 99% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County.
Vanstory Hills Elementary holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 88% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
In North Carolina, Vanstory Hills Elementary is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 68.7% compared with a predicted 48.5%.
In the surrounding county, Cumberland County, median household income comes to about $61,291, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The county has 89 public schools and about 50,815 students.
Vanstory Hills Elementary's nearest public school is R Max Abbott Middle (about 0.5 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 54.6%; Vanstory Hills Elementary's is 68.7%, ranking 2nd of 7.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 514, compared with 461 in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.8:1 to 15.8:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Fayetteville
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
- Westover HighHigh · 1,234 students
- Terry Sanford HighHigh · 1,201 students
Nearby schools
- R Max Abbott Middle0.5 mi · 704
- Cumberland Polytechnic0.7 mi · 319
- Terry Sanford High0.9 mi · 1,201
- Alma O Easom Elementary1.1 mi · 301
- Glendale Acres Elementary1.5 mi · 251
- Margaret Willis Elementary1.7 mi · 296
Frequently asked questions
About Vanstory Hills ElementaryHow many students attend Vanstory Hills Elementary?
Vanstory Hills Elementary enrolls approximately 514 students in grades 02-05.
What grades does Vanstory Hills Elementary serve?
Vanstory Hills Elementary serves grades 02-05.
How many students per teacher at Vanstory Hills Elementary?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Vanstory Hills Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Vanstory Hills Elementary?
At Vanstory Hills Elementary, the student body is approximately 44% White, 16% Hispanic, 28% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Vanstory Hills Elementary public or private?
Vanstory Hills Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cumberland County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.