Hortons Creek Elementary

Hortons Creek Elementary, a roomy primary school in Cary, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wake County Schools, educates 739 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 58% bigger than typical.

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

On demographics, Hortons Creek Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 28% White, 11% Black, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Hortons Creek Elementary has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Wake County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hortons Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.3%, the actual is 88.4%, a residual of +13.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Wake County shows 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 Hortons Creek Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Alston Ridge Middle, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hortons Creek Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 78.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hortons Creek Elementary has contracted 16%, going from 875 students in 2018 to 739 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment rose from 33% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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