Warsaw Elementary

Warsaw Elementary is one of the sprawling K-5 schools in Warsaw, North Carolina, one of the schools within Duplin County Schools, with 808 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 73% bigger than typical.

Duplin County Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 9,822 students. Warsaw Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Warsaw Elementary records that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 44% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Duplin County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Warsaw Elementary logs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Warsaw Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Warsaw Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -17.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Duplin County indicate median household income runs about $55,148, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Duplin County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,822 students), Warsaw Elementary is one campus in the mix.

James Kenan High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Warsaw Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

Warsaw Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 868 students in 2018 compared to 808 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 37% to 44% across the same window.

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