Apex Elementary

Apex Elementary, an average-sized K-5 school in Apex, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wake County Schools, instructs 550 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Apex Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Apex Elementary shows that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 23% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Apex Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Apex Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.4%, the actual is 69.4%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the broader community, Wake County reports that median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Apex Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Apex Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Apex Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 73.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 627 students in 2018 compared to 550 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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