Brassfield Elementary

Brassfield Elementary, a moderately sized elementary campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, operated by Wake County Schools, educates 613 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Brassfield Elementary sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Brassfield Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Brassfield Elementary has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Brassfield Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Brassfield Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Brassfield Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.0%; this one delivers 54.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wake County) logs that median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Brassfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Magellan Charter, roughly 2.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brassfield Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 747 students in 2018 compared to 613 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 17% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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