Jones Dairy Elementary

Jones Dairy Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in Wake Forest, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools, with 627 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Jones Dairy Elementary sits 34% above that benchmark.

Jones Dairy Elementary is one of 198 schools operated by Wake County Schools, a district that instructs 163,176 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Jones Dairy Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wake County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Jones Dairy Elementary has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at Jones Dairy Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Wake County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Jones Dairy Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 81.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household income runs about $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jones Dairy Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Franklin Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jones Dairy Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jones Dairy Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Jones Dairy Elementary's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 757 (now 627). The White share of enrollment contracted from 80% to 61% over that span.

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