RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School

Located at 3420 Idlewood Village Dr, in Raleigh, North Carolina, RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School is a reasonably sized elementary campus that serves 484 students (grades K through 8), operated by RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School.

RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School is a school of RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School logs that 71% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Nearest neighbor: Southeast Raleigh High, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School has grew 52%, going from 318 students in 2018 to 484 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged up from 64% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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