Regular local school district · Bladen County
Bladen County Schools, NC: schools, enrollment and spending
Bladen County Schools runs 12 public schools with 3,928 students in grades PK to 13. Its ratio of 17.1 students per teacher is about the same as the North Carolina figure of 16.3.
At a glance
- Schools
- 12
- Students
- 3,928
- Teachers (FTE)
- 230
- Students per teacher
- 17.1
- NC: 16.3 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1489 US Hwy 701 South, Elizabethtown, NC 28337
- Phone
- (910)862-4136
- County
- Bladen County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 13
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3700390
- State district ID
- NC-090
- School counselors (FTE)
- 10.0About 393 students per counselor.
Students per teacher compared
This district17.1
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (4,017), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $56.4 million
- Federal revenue
- $13.4 million
- State revenue
- $34.8 million
- Local revenue
- $8.2 million
- Total spending
- $54.7 million
- Spending per pupil
- $13,614
- Salaries
- $29.0 million53.0% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $609,000
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 23.7%
- State: 61.8%
- Local: 14.5%
North Carolina overall
- Federal: 12.1%
- State: 61.7%
- Local: 26.2%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$13,614
North Carolina$11,869
United States$16,826
Schools in Bladen County Schools
By level: 3 high, 3 middle, 6 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Bladen Early College | High | 9 to 13 | 129 | 64.5 |
| Bladen Lakes Primary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 166 | 20.8 |
| Bladenboro Middle | Middle | 5 to 8 | 254 | 19.5 |
| Bladenboro Primary | Elementary | PK to 4 | 448 | 16.6 |
| Clarkton School of Discovery | Middle | 5 to 8 | 147 | 12.2 |
| Dublin Primary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 234 | 13.8 |
| East Arcadia Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 68 | 9.7 |
| East Bladen High | High | 9 to 12 | 525 | 19.4 |
| Elizabethtown Middle | Middle | 5 to 8 | 305 | 15.2 |
| Elizabethtown Primary | Elementary | PK to 4 | 483 | 13.8 |
| Tar Heel School | Elementary | PK to 8 | 449 | 18.0 |
| West Bladen High | High | 9 to 12 | 720 | 23.2 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Bladen County
- Emereau: Bladen 629 students
- Paul R Brown Leadership Academy 199 students
More in North Carolina
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.