Holly Grove Elementary

Located at 1451 Avent Ferry Road, in Holly Springs, North Carolina, Holly Grove Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school that hosts 889 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Wake County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 90% larger than the state mean of about 467.

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

Demographically, Holly Grove Elementary records that 65% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 15% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Wake County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holly Grove Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.8%; this one delivers 83.2%.

In the surrounding community, Wake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Holly Grove Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Holly Grove Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Holly Grove Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Holly Grove Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 76.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Holly Grove Elementary has ticked down 22%, going from 1,140 students in 2018 to 889 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 80% to 65%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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