Williams Township

Williams Township is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in Whiteville, North Carolina, overseen by Columbus County Schools, with 659 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Williams Township sits 41% larger than that benchmark.

Williams Township is one of 12 schools operated by Columbus County Schools, a district that hosts 5,440 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Williams Township shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest breaks down as 9% Black, 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Williams Township performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Columbus County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $49,442 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Columbus County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,386 students), Williams Township is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is South Columbus High, roughly 3.6 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Williams Township at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Williams Township has ticked down 10%, going from 731 students in 2018 to 659 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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