Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
South Topsail Elementary, Hampstead, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 618
- Teachers (FTE)
- 38.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.3
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 1.7 lower than the district figure of 18.0. 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
- 997 Hoover Road, Hampstead, NC 28443
- Phone
- (910)270-2756
- District
- Pender County Schools
- County
- Pender County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 370357002046
School meals
- Free lunch
- 615
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 61599.5% 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 Pender County Schools
- Surf City Elementary 857 students
- Topsail Annandale Elementary School 580 students
- Cape Fear Elementary 533 students
- C.F. Pope Elementary 530 students
- North Topsail Elementary 529 students
- Malpass Corner Elementary 513 students
- Penderlea Elementary 468 students
- Rocky Point Elementary 403 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.