Cedar Fork Elementary

Set in Morrisville, North Carolina, Cedar Fork Elementary is an expansive elementary campus, operated by Wake County Schools. It serves 778 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Cedar Fork Elementary sits 67% above that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Cedar Fork Elementary lists that 66% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest comes out to 15% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

In terms of school funding signals, Cedar Fork Elementary logs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Cedar Fork Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cedar Fork Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.7%, the actual is 75.5%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wake County put median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cedar Fork Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

The closest other public school is Sterling Montessori Academy, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedar Fork Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 77.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Fork Elementary has fell 24%, going from 1,022 students in 2018 to 778 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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