Lynn Road Elementary

Lynn Road Elementary is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Raleigh, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools, serveing 486 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Lynn Road Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Lynn Road Elementary shows that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 28% Black, 24% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Lynn Road Elementary reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lynn Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Wake County shows the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lynn Road Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jeffreys Grove Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lynn Road Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lynn Road Elementary has decreased 6%, going from 516 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 44% to 28% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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