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What's the most underrated thing about William T Brown Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
562
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001101097
William T Brown Elementary
2522 Andrews Church Road, Spring Lake, NC 28390 · (910) 497-1258 · Cumberland County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL562 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
552 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 32 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
38.3%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
39.4%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.9%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
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 William T Brown Elementary
William T Brown Elementary's state test result (40.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| William T Brown Elementary this school | 562 | 98.2% | 40.5% |
| Westarea Elementary Fayetteville | 546 | 97.6% | 34.5% |
| Reedy Fork Elementary Greensboro | 538 | 99.4% | 53.3% |
| Brentwood Elementary Fayetteville | 494 | 96.8% | 45.1% |
| Cliffdale Elementary Fayetteville | 613 | 97.9% | 37.8% |
| Elizabeth M Cashwell Elementary Fayetteville | 576 | 98.8% | 42.5% |
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 William T Brown Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.5% | #1,088 of 1,297 | #36 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #1,145 of 1,296 | #36 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #998 of 1,300 | #38 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 562 | #428 of 1,485 | #14 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,190 of 1,377 | #42 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.5% | #853 of 1,379 | #38 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.2% | #877 of 1,414 | #30 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +46.0% | #35 of 369 | #3 of 11 |
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
562
+258 (+85%) vs 2020
-1% since 2000-01, when it was 566
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 562 | 33.4 | 16.8:1 | 98% (552) |
| 2023-24 | 554 | 40 | 13.8:1 | 99% (551) |
| 2022-23 | 598 | 38 | 15.7:1 | 99% (595) |
| 2020-21 | 304 | 26 | 11.7:1 | 99% (301) |
| 2017-18 | 385 | 33.2 | 11.6:1 | 96% (370) |
| 2015-16 | 490 | 35 | 14.0:1 | 95% (464) |
| 2010-11 | 543 | 37 | 14.7:1 | 63% (342) |
| 2000-01 | 566 | 29 | 19.5:1 | 37% (208) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for William T Brown Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 46% (385 to 562); teachers up 1% (33.2 to 33.4).
About William T Brown Elementary
William T Brown Elementary is an elementary school located in Spring Lake, North Carolina, in Cumberland County. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 562 students enrolled. That is 20% above the average of about 467 students for elementary schools in North Carolina.
William T Brown Elementary sits within Cumberland County Schools, which has 86 schools and 49,002 students.
More than half of enrollment at William T Brown Elementary is Black: 63%. The remaining shares are 18% Hispanic, 9% White, and 7% multiracial. Cumberland County as a whole is about 38% Black, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 56%.
There are 33.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at William T Brown Elementary, giving a ratio of 16.8:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in North Carolina is 14.9:1. A total of 552 students, or 98%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 12 points above the 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County.
Among North Carolina public elementary schools, William T Brown Elementary outscored 15%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, William T Brown Elementary is 8.3 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of North Carolina schools.
Cumberland County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $61,291, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Cumberland County's 89 public schools enroll about 50,815 students and include William T Brown Elementary.
Spring Lake Middle, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes 6 other public schools. On state test proficiency, William T Brown Elementary ranks 6th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Fringe. That means it sits in rural territory close to an urban area.
Federal data put enrollment at 304 in 2020-21 and 562 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.8:1) than in 2020-21 (11.7:1).
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Spring Lake
- Overhills HighHigh · 1,981 students
- Overhills ElementaryElementary · 866 students
- Overhills MiddleMiddle · 758 students
- Spring Lake MiddleMiddle · 500 students
- Anderson Creek AcademyElementary · 305 students
- Manchester ElementaryElementary · 254 students
Nearby schools
- Spring Lake Middle0.6 mi · 500
- Manchester Elementary0.7 mi · 254
- Warrenwood Elementary4.2 mi · 424
- College Lakes Elementary4.3 mi · 459
- Howard L Hall Elementary4.4 mi · 539
- Pine Forest High4.5 mi · 1,551
Frequently asked questions
About William T Brown ElementaryHow large is William T Brown Elementary?
William T Brown Elementary enrolls approximately 562 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does William T Brown Elementary serve?
William T Brown Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at William T Brown Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at William T Brown Elementary is approximately 16.8:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at William T Brown Elementary?
Student demographics at William T Brown Elementary are roughly 9% White, 18% Hispanic, 63% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees William T Brown Elementary?
William T Brown Elementary is overseen by Cumberland County Schools in Cumberland County.
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