Barwell Road Elementary

As a mid-sized K-5 school in Raleigh, North Carolina, Barwell Road Elementary educates 648 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Wake County Schools. That puts it 39% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Barwell Road Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barwell Road Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Barwell Road Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Nearest neighbor: PreEminent Charter, around 2.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Barwell Road Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Barwell Road Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 683 students in 2018 compared to 648 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 55% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Barwell Road Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.