Vinson-Bynum Elementary

Vinson-Bynum Elementary is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Wilson, North Carolina, part of Wilson County Schools, with 458 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Vinson-Bynum Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 15% Hispanic, 14% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Wilson County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Vinson-Bynum Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 59.4%, a residual of +10.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wilson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $56,423 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Vinson-Bynum Elementary is one of 29 public schools in Wilson County (combined enrollment of about 12,482 students).

Nearest neighbor: Forest Hills Middle, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vinson-Bynum Elementary. On composite proficiency, Vinson-Bynum Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 24%: 368 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 57% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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