Parkside Elementary

Parkside Elementary is one of the big elementary campuss in Morrisville, North Carolina, part of Wake County Schools, with 730 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 56% bigger than the state mean of about 467.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Parkside Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Parkside Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 22% White, 12% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 9% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Parkside Elementary records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Wake County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Parkside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.2%, the actual is 80.8%, a residual of +8.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate 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%. Parkside Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cedar Fork Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parkside Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 76.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.