Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 8
Down East Middle and Smyrna Elementary, Smyrna, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 262
- Teachers (FTE)
- 21.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.5
- Grades
- PK to 8
This school's ratio is 3.3 lower than the district figure of 15.8. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 174 Marshallberg Rd, Smyrna, NC 28579
- Phone
- (252)729-2301
- District
- Carteret County Public Schools
- County
- Carteret County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 370063000258
School meals
- Free lunch
- 259
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 25998.9% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Carteret County Public Schools
- White Oak Elementary 784 students
- Newport Elementary 621 students
- Morehead City Primary 502 students
- Bogue Sound Elementary 416 students
- Beaufort Elementary 346 students
- Morehead Elementary at Camp Glenn 253 students
- Harkers Island Elementary 95 students
- Atlantic Elementary 88 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.