Beaverdam Elementary

Beaverdam Elementary, a mid-sized K-5 school in Raleigh, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools, instructs 678 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 45% bigger than typical.

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

On demographics, Beaverdam Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 39% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 100% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Beaverdam Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Wake County reports that median household income runs about $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Beaverdam Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Doral Academy of North Carolina, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Beaverdam Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Beaverdam Elementary's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 761 (now 678). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 17% to 6%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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