Forest Pines Drive Elementary

Located at 11455 Forest Pines Drive, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Forest Pines Drive Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that instructs 493 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Wake County Schools.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Forest Pines Drive Elementary records that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 25% White, 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Forest Pines Drive Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Forest Pines Drive 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 48.9%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Wake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Forest Pines Drive Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Forest Pines Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forest Pines Drive Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 23%: 643 students in 2018 compared to 493 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 44% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Forest Pines Drive Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.