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What do you wish you knew before starting at Oak Grove Elementary?
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Enrollment
395
Elementary
DISTRICT 450 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 370126000546
Oak Grove Elementary
3810 Wake Forest Road, Durham, NC 27703 · (919) 560-3960 · Durham County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL395 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
392 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
49.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
65.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Oak Grove Elementary
Oak Grove Elementary's state test result (61.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove Elementary this school | 395 | 99.2% | 61.4% |
| Smith Farm Elementary Winston-Salem | 440 | 99.3% | 49.9% |
| Louisburg Elementary Louisburg | 387 | 99.2% | 41.4% |
| Diggs-Latham Elementary Winston Salem | 385 | 99.2% | 49.8% |
| Bethesda Elementary Durham | 442 | 99.3% | 42.1% |
| Ibraham Elementary Winston Salem | 357 | 99.2% | 32.6% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Oak Grove Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Durham County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.4% | #462 of 1,297 | #9 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #468 of 1,296 | #8 of 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #635 of 1,300 | #12 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 395 | #912 of 1,485 | #25 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #61 of 1,377 | #10 of 41 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #558 of 1,379 | #19 of 41 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.2% | #459 of 1,414 | #20 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.5% | #28 of 937 | #3 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
395
-99 (-20%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 690
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 395 | 34 | 11.6:1 | 99% (392) |
| 2023-24 | 448 | 36 | 12.4:1 | 99% (445) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 40 | 11.8:1 | 81% (380) |
| 2020-21 | 494 | 40 | 12.3:1 | 50% (245) |
| 2017-18 | 642 | 47.3 | 13.6:1 | 76% (489) |
| 2015-16 | 644 | 45 | 14.3:1 | 81% (523) |
| 2010-11 | 554 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 71% (396) |
| 2000-01 | 947 | 51 | 18.6:1 | 36% (338) |
| 1990-91 | 690 | 41 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Grove Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (642 to 395); teachers down 28% (47.3 to 34).
About Oak Grove Elementary
Oak Grove Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school based in Durham, North Carolina. The school enrolls 395 students, from pre-K through 5.
Durham Public Schools is the district for Oak Grove Elementary. It has 55 schools and 31,797 students.
Oak Grove Elementary's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 43%. Other students are 42% Black, 9% White, and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Durham County residents are about 16% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Oak Grove Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
The count of teachers at Oak Grove Elementary is 34 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 11.6:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in North Carolina is 14.9:1, higher than at this school. Around 99% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades Oak Grove Elementary a B+. The grade compares the school only with North Carolina public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in North Carolina with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 48.5%. Oak Grove Elementary scores 61.4%.
In Durham County (population about 332,353), median household income is about $82,316, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 74 public schools operate in Durham County, serving about 46,109 students.
The school nearest to Oak Grove Elementary is Southern School of Energy and Sustainabi, at a distance of about 1.5 miles. Within five miles of Oak Grove Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Oak Grove Elementary is 1st of 7 nearby schools with test data.
The NCES locale for Oak Grove Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 395, 20% below the 494 of 2020-21.
The discussion area below is open to posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Durham County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
332,353
Census ACS
Median income
$82,316
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
74
46,109 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Durham Public Schools
- C E Jordan HighHigh · 2,189 students
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,900 students
- Durham School of the ArtsHigh · 1,764 students
- Hillside HighHigh · 1,433 students
- Southern School of Energy and SustainabiHigh · 1,384 students
- Northern HighHigh · 1,281 students
Other schools in Durham
- NC Virtual AcademyCombined · 3,482 students
- North Carolina Cyber AcademyCombined · 2,461 students
- C E Jordan HighHigh · 2,189 students
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,900 students
- Durham School of the ArtsHigh · 1,764 students
- Hillside HighHigh · 1,433 students
Other Oak Grove Elementary schools
33 other US public schools in 20 states are named Oak Grove Elementary. Oak Grove Elementary is the 25th largest of the 34.
- Oak Grove ElementaryRaleigh, NC · 553 students
- Oak Grove Elementary SchoolLibertyville, IL · 911 students
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 832 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryHattiesburg, MS · 758 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryVisalia, CA · 756 students
Nearby schools
- Southern School of Energy and Sustainabi1.5 mi · 1,384
- Spring Valley Elementary1.7 mi · 543
- Reaching All Minds Academy1.9 mi · 391
- Neal Middle2.1 mi · 706
- Merrick-Moore Elementary2.6 mi · 445
- Bethesda Elementary2.9 mi · 442
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Grove ElementaryHow large is Oak Grove Elementary?
Oak Grove Elementary enrolls approximately 395 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Oak Grove Elementary serve?
Oak Grove Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oak Grove Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oak Grove Elementary is approximately 11.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oak Grove Elementary?
At Oak Grove Elementary, the student body is approximately 9% White, 43% Hispanic, 42% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Oak Grove Elementary public or private?
Oak Grove Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Durham Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.