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What's the one class at Wallace Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,120
Elementary
DISTRICT 832 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUPLIN COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370120000504
Wallace Elementary
4266 NC 11 S, Wallace, NC 28466 · (910) 285-7183 · Duplin County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,120 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
16.8:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
1,117 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 10 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 122 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 121 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 130 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 133 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 128 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 136 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (122) is 10% smaller than its 8th grade class (136).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
27.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
25.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Wallace Elementary
Wallace Elementary's state test result (28.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallace Elementary this school | 1,120 | 99.7% | 28.0% |
| Saint Pauls Elementary Saint Pauls | 710 | 99.6% | 28.8% |
| Selma Elementary Selma | 794 | 99.6% | 45.1% |
| South Pine Academy Charlotte | 765 | 99.6% | 26.5% |
| Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary Rose Hill | 1,118 | 99.7% | 29.6% |
| Winding Springs Elementary Charlotte | 786 | 99.6% | 46.4% |
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 Wallace Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Duplin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #1,259 of 1,297 | #8 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #1,275 of 1,296 | #8 of 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #1,227 of 1,300 | #7 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,120 | #4 of 1,485 | #1 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,194 of 1,377 | #7 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.7% | #539 of 1,379 | #2 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.7% | #1 of 1,414 | #1 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.8% | #882 of 937 | #6 of 6 |
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
1,120
-33 (-3%) vs 2020
+31% since 1990-91, when it was 853
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 1,120 | 66.5 | 16.8:1 | 100% (1,117) |
| 2023-24 | 1,112 | 73.5 | 15.1:1 | 100% (1,109) |
| 2022-23 | 1,147 | 71.4 | 16.1:1 | 100% (1,144) |
| 2020-21 | 1,153 | 71 | 16.2:1 | 100% (1,150) |
| 2017-18 | 1,140 | 71.8 | 15.9:1 | 100% (1,135) |
| 2015-16 | 844 | 53 | 15.9:1 | 80% (678) |
| 2010-11 | 807 | 45 | 17.9:1 | 71% (575) |
| 2000-01 | 678 | 41 | 16.5:1 | 66% (448) |
| 1990-91 | 853 | 44 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wallace Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (1,140 to 1,120); teachers down 7% (71.8 to 66.5).
About Wallace Elementary
Wallace Elementary runs as a large elementary school in Wallace, North Carolina. The school teaches pre-K through 8 and enrolls 1,120 students. That is 140% larger than the average of about 467 students for elementary schools in North Carolina.
Across its 13 schools, Duplin County Schools enrolls 9,822 students. Wallace Elementary is one of those schools.
The largest group at Wallace Elementary is Hispanic students, at 51%. Other groups include 26% Black, 18% White, and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Duplin County residents are about 23% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wallace Elementary scores 64%.
The school's 66.5 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1, 2.0 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Duplin County is close, at 100%.
Wallace Elementary holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 2% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
In North Carolina, Wallace Elementary is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 28.0% compared with a predicted 48.4%.
In the surrounding county, Duplin County, the median household earns about $55,148 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Duplin County has 13 public schools with about 9,822 students, including Wallace Elementary.
Of the public schools around it, Wallace Elementary is closest to Wallace-Rose Hill High, about 2.8 miles away. There are 3 other public schools within ten miles. Wallace Elementary ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 28.0% against a local average of 41.9%.
In the federal locale system, Wallace Elementary is coded Rural: Remote, for schools in rural territory far from an urban area.
A 3% decline took enrollment from 1,153 in 2020-21 to 1,120 in 2024-25.
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Duplin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
49,335
Census ACS
Median income
$55,148
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
9,822 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Duplin County Schools
- Rose Hill-Magnolia ElementaryElementary · 1,118 students
- Beulaville ElementaryElementary · 877 students
- B F Grady ElementaryElementary · 865 students
- East Duplin HighHigh · 864 students
- Warsaw ElementaryElementary · 808 students
- James Kenan HighHigh · 758 students
Other Wallace Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 9 states are named Wallace Elementary. Wallace Elementary is the largest of the 9.
- Wallace Elementary SchoolDALLAS, TX · 654 students
- Wallace Elementary SchoolHOBOKEN, NJ · 649 students
- Wallace Elementary SchoolYork, PA · 427 students
- Wallace Elementary SchoolOttawa, IL · 420 students
- Wallace Elementary SchoolKokomo, IN · 360 students
Nearby schools
- Wallace-Rose Hill High2.8 mi · 738
- Penderlea Elementary6.7 mi · 468
- Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary8.4 mi · 1,118
- Chinquapin Elementary11.3 mi · 537
- C.F. Pope Elementary12.6 mi · 530
- Pender High13.1 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Wallace ElementaryHow many students attend Wallace Elementary?
Wallace Elementary enrolls approximately 1,120 students in grades PK-08.
Is Wallace Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wallace Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Wallace Elementary?
Approximately 16.8:1 students per teacher at Wallace Elementary.
How diverse is Wallace Elementary?
Wallace Elementary reports a student body of 18% White, 51% Hispanic, 26% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Wallace Elementary public or private?
Wallace Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Duplin County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.