Carthage Elementary

As an intimate elementary campus in Carthage, North Carolina, Carthage Elementary enrolls 350 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Moore County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Carthage Elementary sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Moore County Schools (13,085 students total), Carthage Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Carthage Elementary logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 11% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Moore County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. 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, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Moore County's rate of about 64%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carthage Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 63.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Moore County shows median household earnings sit near $86,080, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Moore County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,708 students), of which Carthage Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Carthage Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carthage Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 66.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carthage Elementary has fell 7%, going from 376 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 70% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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