Warrenwood Elementary

Warrenwood Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Fayetteville, North Carolina, operated by Cumberland County Schools, with 424 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Cumberland County Schools, which oversees 86 schools and 49,002 students, Warrenwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Warrenwood Elementary lists that Black students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder reads as 18% Hispanic, 12% White, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cumberland County (around 86%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Warrenwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 35.3%, a residual of -14.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cumberland County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Warrenwood Elementary is one of 89 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students).

Nearest neighbor: College Lakes Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Warrenwood Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Warrenwood Elementary has expanded 12%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 66% to 59% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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