📍 11 Garden Road, Willard, Pender County, 28478
Penderlea Elementary is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Willard, Pender County. The school has 495 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Pender County Schools school district. It serves grades Pre-K–8 in a rural setting. The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 14.1:1. 32% of students are proficient in reading. 35% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Penderlea Elementary enrolls 495 students across grades Pre-K–8. The student body is 49% male and 51% female. A teaching staff of 35 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 55% White, 21% Hispanic or Latino and 19% Black or African American.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| White | 272 | 55% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 103 | 21% |
| Black or African American | 93 | 19% |
| Two or more races | 23 | 4.6% |
| Asian | 4 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
354 of the school's 495 students (72%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 327 qualify for free lunch and 27 for a reduced price. The school participates in the National School Lunch Program. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Penderlea Elementary is located in a rural setting (NCES locale: Rural, Distant). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district NC-70, state senate district 8, state house district 16.
Penderlea Elementary is one of 19 schools in Pender County Schools, based in Burgaw, North Carolina. The district serves 11,073 students district-wide and employs 664 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 495 students, Penderlea Elementary is smaller than the district average of about 583 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Rural - Distant
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