W H Knuckles

W H Knuckles is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Lumberton, North Carolina, overseen by Public Schools of Robeson County, with 382 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3.

W H Knuckles is one of 36 schools operated by Public Schools of Robeson County, a district that instructs 20,856 students overall.

On the student-mix side, W H Knuckles logs that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 12% Native American, 3% multiracial, 3% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, W H Knuckles logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), W H Knuckles performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Robeson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $41,978 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. Across Robeson County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,625 students), W H Knuckles is one campus in the mix.

Lumberton Junior is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, W H Knuckles comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

W H Knuckles operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 110%: 182 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 85% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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