Hodge Road Elementary

Hodge Road Elementary, a mid-tier K-5 school in Knightdale, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wake County Schools, caters to 522 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, Hodge Road Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% Black, 16% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Hodge Road Elementary has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Hodge Road Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Hodge Road 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 46.5%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Around the school, 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%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Hodge Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Rogers Lane Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hodge Road Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hodge Road Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hodge Road Elementary has edged up 18%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 7% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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