Rashkis Elementary

Set in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Rashkis Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, run under Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. It caters to 455 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, which oversees 20 schools and 11,392 students, Rashkis Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Rashkis Elementary shows that 32% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% Asian, 21% Black, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Rashkis Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Rashkis Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rashkis Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.3%; this one delivers 62.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $90,089, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Orange County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,582 students), of which Rashkis Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Glenwood Elementary, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rashkis Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rashkis Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 62.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 481 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 45% to 32%.

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