Weldon Elementary Global Academy

Weldon Elementary Global Academy is an elementary campus of intimate scale in Weldon, North Carolina, overseen by Weldon City Schools, caters to 272 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 42% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Weldon City Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 664 students. Weldon Elementary Global Academy is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Weldon Elementary Global Academy logs that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 3% multiracial. By comparison, Halifax County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Weldon Elementary Global Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.6%; this one comes in at 22.9%, -25.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Halifax County reports that the typical household earns roughly $45,590 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Halifax County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,803 students), Weldon Elementary Global Academy is one campus in the mix.

Northampton Early College is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Weldon Elementary Global Academy at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.2%.

Weldon Elementary Global Academy operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Weldon Elementary Global Academy's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 362 (now 272). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Weldon Elementary Global Academy community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.