Vanstory Hills Elementary

Located at 400 Foxhall Road, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Vanstory Hills Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school that caters to 514 students (grades 2 through 5), operated by Cumberland County Schools.

Vanstory Hills Elementary is one of 86 schools operated by Cumberland County Schools, a district that teaches 49,002 students overall.

On demographics, Vanstory Hills Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 28% Black, 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vanstory Hills Elementary ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.5%; Vanstory Hills Elementary posts 68.7%, +20.2 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Cumberland County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cumberland County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), of which Vanstory Hills Elementary is one.

R Max Abbott Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Vanstory Hills Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.6%.

Vanstory Hills Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 549 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 8% to 16% over that span.

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