Adams Elementary

Set in Cary, North Carolina, Adams Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school, run under Wake County Schools. It instructs 655 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Adams Elementary is one of 198 schools operated by Wake County Schools, a district that teaches 163,176 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Adams Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 36% Hispanic, 18% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at Adams Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Wake County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, Adams Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Wake County shows the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Adams Elementary is one campus in the mix.

East Cary Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Adams Elementary. On composite proficiency, Adams Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Adams Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 664 (now 655). Hispanic enrollment moved from 25% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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