Durant Road Elementary

Durant Road Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Raleigh, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools, works with 577 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Durant Road Elementary sits 24% larger than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Durant Road Elementary reports that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Hispanic, 28% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Durant Road Elementary records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Durant Road Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wake County shows 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. Durant Road Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

The closest other public school is Abbotts Creek Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Durant Road Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Durant Road Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 53.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Durant Road Elementary has shrank 31%, going from 841 students in 2018 to 577 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 41% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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