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What's the one class at Alston Ridge Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
917
Elementary
DISTRICT 594 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370472003214
Alston Ridge Elementary
11555 Green Level Church Rd., Cary, NC 27519 · (919) 544-2474 · Wake County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL917 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 66% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
163 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 124 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 139 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 134 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 141 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 169 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 182 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (124) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (182).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Alston Ridge Elementary→Alston Ridge Middle
Based on published attendance-zone data from Wake County Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
69.0%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
75.8%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Alston Ridge Elementary
Alston Ridge Elementary's state test result (72.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alston Ridge Elementary this school | 917 | 17.8% | 72.3% |
| Cox Mill Elementary Concord | 1,086 | 10.6% | 87.7% |
| Parkside Elementary Morrisville | 730 | 21.9% | 80.8% |
| W R Odell Primary Concord | 938 | 14.4% | N/A |
| Morrisville Elementary Morrisville | 643 | 13.2% | 80.2% |
| Hortons Creek Elementary Cary | 739 | 11.5% | 88.4% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Alston Ridge Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #181 of 1,297 | #36 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.8% | #198 of 1,296 | #33 of 120 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #151 of 1,300 | #34 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 917 | #25 of 1,485 | #5 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #449 of 1,377 | #72 of 137 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.0% | #529 of 1,379 | #78 of 137 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.8% | #1,372 of 1,414 | #111 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.9% | #559 of 937 | #64 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
917
-147 (-14%) vs 2020
+99% since 2010-11, when it was 460
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 15.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 917 | 66 | 13.9:1 | 18% (163) |
| 2023-24 | 1,111 | 72.7 | 15.3:1 | 14% (151) |
| 2022-23 | 1,047 | 70.2 | 14.9:1 | 13% (132) |
| 2020-21 | 1,064 | 69 | 15.4:1 | 9% (98) |
| 2017-18 | 1,029 | 62.6 | 16.4:1 | 9% (88) |
| 2015-16 | 1,108 | 63 | 17.6:1 | 8% (91) |
| 2010-11 | 460 | 31 | 14.8:1 | 14% (65) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alston Ridge Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (1,029 to 917); teachers up 5% (62.6 to 66).
About Alston Ridge Elementary
Alston Ridge Elementary is a public high-enrollment elementary school in Cary, North Carolina. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 917 students. That is 96% larger than the average of about 467 students for elementary schools in North Carolina.
In Wake County Schools, 198 schools enroll a combined 163,176 students.
Of every 100 students at Alston Ridge Elementary, about 55 are Asian. After that, the student body is 19% White, 13% Black, 9% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Among all residents of Wake County, the Asian share is about 9%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 64%.
There are 66 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 13.9:1. Compared with the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina, this school's ratio is lower. On the income side, 18% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Wake County, the average eligibility rate is 42%.
Among North Carolina public elementary schools, Alston Ridge Elementary outscored 66%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Alston Ridge Elementary is -1.1 points: 72.3% actual, 73.4% predicted.
Wake County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $105,768 a year, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Wake County number 237, with about 184,790 students.
The closest school to Alston Ridge Elementary is Alston Ridge Middle, located about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Alston Ridge Elementary is ahead of the 70.7% nearby average, ranking 4th of 7.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Mid-size.
Enrollment decreased by 14% across 4 years, from 1,064 in 2020-21 to 917 in 2024-25. The ratio was 15.4:1 in 2020-21 and 13.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Wake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,178,653
Census ACS
Median income
$105,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
237
184,790 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wake County Schools
- Apex Friendship HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Enloe HighHigh · 2,643 students
- Panther Creek HighHigh · 2,609 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 2,498 students
- Apex HighHigh · 2,449 students
- Leesville Road HighHigh · 2,411 students
Other schools in Cary
- Panther Creek HighHigh · 2,609 students
- Green Hope HighHigh · 2,304 students
- Green Level HighHigh · 2,283 students
- Cary HighHigh · 2,044 students
- Triangle Math and Science AcademyCombined · 1,904 students
- Mills Park MiddleMiddle · 1,632 students
Nearby schools
- Alston Ridge Middle0.4 mi · 1,494
- Hortons Creek Elementary1.3 mi · 739
- Lyons Farm Elementary1.7 mi · 608
- Panther Creek High2.1 mi · 2,609
- Parkwood Elementary2.2 mi · 491
- Parkside Elementary2.4 mi · 730
Frequently asked questions
About Alston Ridge ElementaryHow many students attend Alston Ridge Elementary?
Alston Ridge Elementary enrolls approximately 917 students in grades PK-05.
Is Alston Ridge Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Alston Ridge Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Alston Ridge Elementary have?
Alston Ridge Elementary employs 66 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Alston Ridge Elementary?
At Alston Ridge Elementary, the student body is approximately 19% White, 9% Hispanic, 13% Black, 55% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Alston Ridge Elementary?
Alston Ridge Elementary is overseen by Wake County Schools in Wake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.