Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Southwood Elementary, Kinston, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 218
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.0
- Students per teacher
- 11.5
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 4.0 lower than the district figure of 15.5. 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
- 1245 Hwy 58 South, Kinston, NC 28504
- Phone
- (252)527-9081
- District
- Lenoir County Public Schools
- County
- Lenoir County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 370261001095
School meals
- Free lunch
- 215
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 21598.6% 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 Lenoir County Public Schools
- Contentnea-Savannah School 789 students
- La Grange Elementary 547 students
- Northwest Elementary 504 students
- Northeast Elementary 465 students
- Pink Hill Elementary 437 students
- Banks Elementary 436 students
- Moss Hill Elementary 371 students
- Southeast Elementary 326 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.