Oak Grove Elementary

Set in Durham, North Carolina, Oak Grove Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary-level community, part of Durham Public Schools. It enrolls 395 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Durham Public Schools, which oversees 55 schools and 31,797 students, Oak Grove Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Oak Grove Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 42% Black, 9% White, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Oak Grove Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Grove Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Durham County shows median household income runs about $82,316, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Durham County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,109 students), of which Oak Grove Elementary is one.

Southern School of Energy and Sustainabi is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Grove Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 38%: 642 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 55% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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