Bugg Elementary

Bugg Elementary operates as a cozy elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, part of Wake County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 345 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bugg Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 9% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Bugg Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Wake County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, Bugg Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 35.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Bugg Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Poe Elementary, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bugg Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Bugg Elementary's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 441 (now 345). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 73% to 56% over that span.

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