Oakview Elementary

Located at 11500 Holly Springs New Hill R, in Apex, North Carolina, Oakview Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary-level community that educates 873 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Wake County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 87% above the state mean of about 467.

Oakview Elementary is one of 198 schools operated by Wake County Schools, a district that hosts 163,176 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oakview Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 13% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Wake County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oakview Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.2%; this one delivers 80.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Wake County shows median household earnings sit near $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Oakview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pine Springs Preparatory Remote Academy, around 2.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oakview Elementary. On composite proficiency, Oakview Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 77.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Oakview Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 12% since 2018, when it stood at 778 (now 873). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 2% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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