Brentwood Elementary

Set in Raleigh, North Carolina, Brentwood Elementary is a close-knit elementary-level community, overseen by Wake County Schools. It works with 385 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Brentwood Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 23% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Brentwood Elementary logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Brentwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Brentwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Brentwood Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wilburn Elementary, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brentwood Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Brentwood Elementary's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 385). The White share of enrollment ticked up from 15% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.