Rand Road Elementary

Rand Road Elementary is a K-5 school of compact scale in Garner, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools, hosting 394 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Rand Road Elementary lists that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rand Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.8%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wake County) reports that median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Rand Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bryan Road Elementary, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rand Road Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rand Road Elementary has ticked down 28%, going from 544 students in 2018 to 394 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 63% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Rand Road Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.