Brooks Elementary

As an average-sized primary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, Brooks Elementary educates 471 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Wake County Schools.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; Brooks Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Brooks Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 21% Black, 19% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Brooks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of -8.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wake County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Brooks Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Carroll Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brooks Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 56.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 586 students in 2018 compared to 471 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 63% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.