Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
James W Smith Elementary, Cove City, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 325
- Teachers (FTE)
- 23.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.1
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 3.5 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.
School details
- Address
- 150 Koonce Town Road, Cove City, NC 28523
- Phone
- (252)514-6466
- District
- Craven County Board of Education
- County
- Craven County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 370331002211
School meals
- Free lunch
- 314
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 31496.6% 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 Craven County Board of Education
- Vanceboro-Farm Life Elementary 494 students
- Arthur W Edwards Elementary 489 students
- Creekside Elementary 453 students
- Albert H Bangert Elementary 446 students
- Brinson Memorial Elementary 446 students
- Bridgeton Elementary 415 students
- Roger Bell New Tech Academy 408 students
- Trent Park Elementary 390 students
- Oaks Road Academy 352 students
- W Jesse Gurganus Elementary 340 students
- Ben D. Quinn Elementary 312 students
- J.T. Barber Elementary 270 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.