Root Elementary

As a moderately sized K-5 school in Raleigh, North Carolina, Root Elementary caters to 469 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Wake County Schools.

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

Looking at the student body, Root Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment; the rest consists of 17% Hispanic, 14% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Root Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Root Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.2%, the actual is 69.4%, a residual of +1.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Wake County shows the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Root Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Oberlin Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Root Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.5%.

Root Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 526 students in 2018 compared to 469 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 8% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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