Zeb Vance Elementary

Set in Kittrell, North Carolina, Zeb Vance Elementary is a modestly sized K-5 school, part of Vance County Schools. It serves 298 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Zeb Vance Elementary sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

Vance County Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 5,205 students. Zeb Vance Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Zeb Vance Elementary shows that Black students make up the majority at 62%; the rest comes out to 18% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Vance County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Zeb Vance Elementary logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Zeb Vance Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Vance County) logs that median household earnings sit near $50,465, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Vance County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,495 students), Zeb Vance Elementary is one campus in the mix.

L B Yancey Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Zeb Vance Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Zeb Vance Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Zeb Vance Elementary's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 401 (now 298). The White share of enrollment contracted from 29% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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