Highcroft Elementary

Highcroft Elementary operates as a mid-sized primary school in Cary, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wake County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 698 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% larger than the state mean of about 467.

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

Looking at the student body, Highcroft Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 30% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Highcroft Elementary has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Highcroft Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 9% of students are eligible 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 south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Highcroft Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.0%, the actual is 87.2%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wake County put the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Highcroft Elementary is one.

Mills Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Highcroft Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 80.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highcroft Elementary has shrank 28%, going from 964 students in 2018 to 698 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 45% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.