Apex Friendship Elementary

Apex Friendship Elementary is a heavily attended elementary campus in Apex, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wake County Schools. The school enrolls 896 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 92% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Across the 198 schools in Wake County Schools (163,176 students total), Apex Friendship Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Apex Friendship Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 42% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, On paper, Apex Friendship Elementary has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 5% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Apex Friendship Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 88.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Apex Friendship Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Apex Friendship High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Apex Friendship Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 80.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.