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Craven County Board of Education

New Bern, North Carolina · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

12,152
Students enrolled
26
Public schools
692
Classroom teachers (FTE)
17.6:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 261
  • Kindergarten 840
  • Grade 1 901
  • Grade 2 949
  • Grade 3 886
  • Grade 4 903
  • Grade 5 896
  • Grade 6 824
  • Grade 7 885
  • Grade 8 907
  • Grade 9 1,242
  • Grade 10 934
  • Grade 11 880
  • Grade 12 776
  • Grade 13 68

By race/ethnicity

  • White 45%
  • Black or African American 25%
  • Hispanic/Latino 15%
  • Two or more races 9%
  • Asian 5%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

74% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 9,001 of 12,152 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 72%
  • Reduced-price lunch 2%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$12,672 spent per student on day-to-day operations North Carolina median: $12,409 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $7,291
  • Support services $4,610
  • Other (food service, etc.) $770

Where the money comes from

  • Local 17%
  • State 60%
  • Federal 23%

Total revenue $164.1 milliontotal spending $169.9 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 13

Locale (NCES)

Town: DistantStudents: 76% town, 24% rural

Total staff (FTE)

1,772

District office

3600 Trent Road, New Bern NC 28562

County

Craven County

Official website

NCES District ID

3703310

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About Craven County Board of Education

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Our Mission-Craven County Schools, united with families and communities, will rigorously challenge all students to graduate from high school and be globally competitive for post-secondary education, work, and life in the 21st century.
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