Knightdale Elementary

Knightdale Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Knightdale, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 549 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Knightdale Elementary shows that 42% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 15% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Wake County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, Knightdale 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 40.8%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Wake County shows median household income runs about $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 Knightdale Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Lockhart Elementary, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Knightdale Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 607 students in 2018 compared to 549 in 2025.

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