Enrollment
298
Elementary
DISTRICT 263 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VANCE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370465001825
Zeb Vance Elementary
4800 Raleigh Road, Kittrell, NC 27544 · (252) 438-8492 · Vance County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
17.8:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
295 students
DISTRICT 97% · STATE 82%
Community
0
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 | 18 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (45).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
29.8%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
33.3%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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
33.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% 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 Zeb Vance Elementary
Zeb Vance Elementary's state test result (33.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeb Vance Elementary this school | 298 | 99.0% | 33.3% |
| C. G. Credle Elementary Oxford | 327 | 99.1% | 42.7% |
| South Creek Elementary Robersonville | 337 | 99.1% | 38.5% |
| A H Snipes Academy of Arts/Des Wilmington | 342 | 99.1% | 36.6% |
| Manchester Elementary Spring Lake | 254 | 98.8% | 44.1% |
| Margaret Willis Elementary Fayetteville | 296 | 97.6% | 43.1% |
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 Zeb Vance Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Vance County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #1,213 of 1,297 | #8 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #1,224 of 1,296 | #7 of 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #1,201 of 1,300 | #7 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #1,183 of 1,485 | #5 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #1,282 of 1,377 | #6 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.5% | #855 of 1,379 | #2 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.0% | #649 of 1,414 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.7% | #152 of 937 | #4 of 9 |
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
298
-22 (-7%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 414
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 298 | 16.8 | 17.8:1 | 99% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 325 | 19.5 | 16.6:1 | 99% (322) |
| 2022-23 | 333 | 21.2 | 15.7:1 | 99% (330) |
| 2020-21 | 320 | 31 | 10.3:1 | 99% (317) |
| 2017-18 | 401 | 24.7 | 16.2:1 | 98% (394) |
| 2015-16 | 353 | 25 | 14.1:1 | 99% (350) |
| 2010-11 | 435 | 31 | 14.0:1 | 80% (350) |
| 2000-01 | 557 | 28 | 19.9:1 | 60% (333) |
| 1990-91 | 414 | 20 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Zeb Vance Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (401 to 298); teachers down 32% (24.7 to 16.8).
About Zeb Vance Elementary
Among the schools in Kittrell, North Carolina, is Zeb Vance Elementary, a small elementary school. It enrolls 298 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 36% below the 467-student average for elementary schools in North Carolina.
Enrollment across the 16 schools in Vance County Schools totals 5,205 students.
The share of Black students at Zeb Vance Elementary is 62%, a majority. After that, the student body is 18% White, 17% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Vance County is about 47% Black. A diversity index of 55% means there is a 55% chance two randomly chosen students at Zeb Vance Elementary are from different groups.
There are about 17.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Zeb Vance Elementary, which has 16.8. Elementary schools in North Carolina have an average ratio of 14.9:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 99%. That is in line with the 98% average for public schools in Vance County.
Among North Carolina public elementary schools, Zeb Vance Elementary outscored 6%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Zeb Vance Elementary is 15.3 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of North Carolina schools.
In Vance County, median household income comes to about $50,465, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 17% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 14%. The county's public schools total 19, with about 7,495 students.
About 2.8 miles separate Zeb Vance Elementary from the closest public school, L B Yancey Elementary. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 38.9%; Zeb Vance Elementary's is 33.3%, ranking 5th of 7.
NCES describes the area around Zeb Vance Elementary as Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
The school's student count decreased 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 17.8:1, from 10.3:1.
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Vance County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,322
Census ACS
Median income
$50,465
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
7,495 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Vance County Schools
- Vance County High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Vance County Middle SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Dabney ElementaryElementary · 385 students
- Aycock ElementaryElementary · 376 students
- Clarke ElementaryElementary · 364 students
- E M Rollins ElementaryElementary · 322 students
Nearby schools
- L B Yancey Elementary2.8 mi · 186
- Henderson Collegiate3.2 mi · 1,334
- Vance County High School3.3 mi · 1,064
- Clarke Elementary3.5 mi · 364
- E M Rollins Elementary3.8 mi · 322
- Pinkston Street Elementary4.3 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About Zeb Vance ElementaryHow many students attend Zeb Vance Elementary?
Zeb Vance Elementary enrolls approximately 298 students in grades PK-05.
Is Zeb Vance Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Zeb Vance Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Zeb Vance Elementary?
Approximately 17.8:1 students per teacher at Zeb Vance Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Zeb Vance Elementary?
At Zeb Vance Elementary, the student body is approximately 18% White, 17% Hispanic, 62% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Zeb Vance Elementary public or private?
Zeb Vance Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Vance County Schools.
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