Needham Broughton High

Located at 723 Saint Marys St, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Needham Broughton High is a heavily attended 9-12 campus that hosts 2,153 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Wake County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 183% above the state mean of about 761.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Needham Broughton High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Needham Broughton High shows that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 20% Black, 16% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Wake County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Needham Broughton High shows 118 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at Needham Broughton High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Needham Broughton High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.3%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of -16.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Wake County) records that the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 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), Needham Broughton High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Partnership Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Needham Broughton High at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 71.8%.

Needham Broughton High operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Needham Broughton High's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 2,144 (now 2,153). Black enrollment moved from 28% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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