Holly Springs Elementary

Holly Springs Elementary is a substantial primary school in Holly Springs, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools. The school educates 751 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 61% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Across the 198 schools in Wake County Schools (163,176 students total), Holly Springs Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Holly Springs Elementary records that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Holly Springs Elementary logs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 20% of students at Holly Springs Elementary qualify 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 below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Holly Springs Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.6%, the actual is 82.2%, a residual of +9.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wake County) reports that median household earnings sit near $105,768, 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 Holly Springs Elementary is one.

Holly Ridge Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Holly Springs Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 76.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 849 students in 2018 compared to 751 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 73% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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