North Forest Pines Elementary

North Forest Pines Elementary, a mid-sized primary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools, enrolls 536 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; North Forest Pines Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, North Forest Pines Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 27% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, North Forest Pines Elementary reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, North Forest Pines Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.1%; this one delivers 65.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household income runs about $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 North Forest Pines Elementary is one.

Forest Pines Drive Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Forest Pines Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.4%.

North Forest Pines Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. North Forest Pines Elementary's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 693 (now 536). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 13% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the North Forest Pines Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.