Baucom Elementary

Baucom Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Apex, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools, with 675 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 45% above typical.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Baucom Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Baucom Elementary records that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 28% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Baucom Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.4%, the actual is 77.7%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wake County put the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Baucom Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

The closest other public school is Apex Middle, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Baucom Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 71.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Baucom Elementary has increased 4%, going from 651 students in 2018 to 675 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 68% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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