Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

H J MacDonald Middle, New Bern, NC

H J MacDonald Middle is a public middle school in New Bern, part of Craven County Board of Education. It enrolled 632 students in 2024-25, with 14.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 632
Teachers (FTE): 44.0
Students per teacher: 14.4
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 3.2 lower than the district figure of 17.6. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.4

District17.6

North Carolina16.3

United States15.3

School details

Address: 3127 Elizabeth Avenue, New Bern, NC 28562
Phone: (252)514-6450
District: Craven County Board of Education
County: Craven County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Distant
NCES school ID: 370331000383

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 627
Reduced-price lunch: 0
Free or reduced-price lunch: 62799.2% 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 middle schools in Craven County Board of Education

West Craven Middle 614 students
Grover C Fields Middle 542 students
Tucker Creek Middle 478 students
Havelock Middle 313 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.