Lincoln Heights Elementary

Lincoln Heights Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 667 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Lincoln Heights Elementary sits 43% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lincoln Heights Elementary reports that 59% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 15% Black, 14% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial. Compared to Wake County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 36% of students at Lincoln Heights Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Heights Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.9%; this one delivers 66.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wake County) logs that median household earnings sit near $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 Lincoln Heights Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fuquay-Varina High, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Heights Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Heights Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln Heights Elementary has increased 45%, going from 461 students in 2018 to 667 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share grew from 35% to 59%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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