Wallace Elementary

Located at 4266 NC 11 S, in Wallace, North Carolina, Wallace Elementary is a large primary school that educates 1,120 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Duplin County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 140% bigger than the state mean of about 467.

Duplin County Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 9,822 students; Wallace Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Wallace Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 18% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Wallace Elementary records 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Wallace Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wallace Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.4%; this one comes in at 28.0%, -20.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Duplin County indicate median household income runs about $55,148, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Wallace Elementary is one of 13 public schools in Duplin County (combined enrollment of about 9,822 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wallace-Rose Hill High, around 2.8 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wallace Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,140 students in 2018 compared to 1,120 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 42% to 51% over that span.

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