Lead Mine Elementary

Lead Mine Elementary, a small K-5 school in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wake County Schools, hosts 359 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 23% leaner than typical.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Lead Mine Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lead Mine Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 18% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Lead Mine Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lead Mine Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.3%, the actual is 59.7%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Lead Mine Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Baileywick Road Elementary, roughly 1.3 miles away. 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), Lead Mine Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.0%.

Lead Mine Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lead Mine Elementary's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 483 (now 359). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 15% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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