Leesville Road Elementary

Leesville Road Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in Raleigh, North Carolina, part of Wake County Schools, with 528 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Leesville Road Elementary is one of 198 schools operated by Wake County Schools, a district that hosts 163,176 students overall.

Demographically, Leesville Road Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 14% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Leesville Road Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 81.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wake County shows median household income runs about $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Leesville Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Leesville Road Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leesville Road Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Leesville Road Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 72.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Leesville Road Elementary's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 668 (now 528). Black enrollment moved from 23% to 14% across the same window.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.