Vick Elementary

Vick Elementary is a K-5 school of compact scale in Wilson, North Carolina, run under Wilson County Schools, caters to 359 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Vick Elementary sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Wilson County Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 10,451 students. Vick Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vick Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black, at 70% of enrollment; the rest consists of 25% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Vick Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vick Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 35.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Wilson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $56,423 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Wilson County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,482 students), of which Vick Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wilson Academy of Applied Technology, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Vick Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.9%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 11%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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