Baileywick Road Elementary

As a compact primary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, Baileywick Road Elementary instructs 352 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Wake County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 25% leaner than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Baileywick Road Elementary reports that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 36% White, 8% Black. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Baileywick Road Elementary lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Baileywick Road Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Wake County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Baileywick Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of -14.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Wake County shows median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Baileywick Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Magellan Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baileywick Road Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Baileywick Road Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 66.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Baileywick Road Elementary has fell 20%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 13% to 8% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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