Summary:
The ECU Community School is the sole elementary school located within the East Carolina Community School district. Despite serving a student population with a very high rate of free and reduced-price lunch recipients (97.44% in 2023-2024), the school has consistently outperformed the state average in mathematics proficiency across grades 3-5, with particularly strong results in 5th grade.
In the 2024-2025 school year, ECU Community School ranked 651 out of 1,490 North Carolina elementary schools and was rated 3 out of 5 stars by SchoolDigger. The school's mathematics proficiency rates have ranged from 78.3% to 84.2% in grades 3-5, significantly higher than the state average. However, the school's reading and science proficiency rates have been more mixed, with some grades performing below the state average.
With only 117 students enrolled, ECU Community School is a relatively small elementary school, but it maintains a student-teacher ratio of 13:1, lower than the state average. The school's ranking has fluctuated in recent years, suggesting that factors such as changes in the school's performance or the performance of other schools in the state may be contributing to these variations. Overall, ECU Community School stands out as a high-performing school that has been able to achieve strong academic outcomes despite serving a high-poverty student population.
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