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What advice would you give to incoming students at Root Elementary?
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Enrollment
469
Elementary
DISTRICT 594 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370472001891
Root Elementary
3202 Northampton Street, Raleigh, NC 27609 · (919) 881-4940 · Wake County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
163 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 29 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Root Elementary→Oberlin Middle
Based on published attendance-zone data from Wake County Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
66.4%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
71.4%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.2%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Root Elementary
Root Elementary's state test result (69.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Root Elementary this school | 469 | 34.8% | 69.4% |
| McDougle Elementary Chapel Hill | 497 | 31.4% | 70.2% |
| Western Union Elementary Waxhaw | 539 | 40.6% | 57.3% |
| Rocky River Elementary Mooresville | 460 | 41.3% | N/A |
| Shamrock Gardens Elementary Charlotte | 532 | 32.1% | 65.5% |
| Vass-Lakeview Elementary Vass | 511 | 40.7% | 67.8% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Root Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #247 of 1,297 | #49 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #300 of 1,296 | #46 of 120 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.4% | #189 of 1,300 | #45 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #700 of 1,485 | #112 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #239 of 1,377 | #40 of 137 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.8% | #955 of 1,379 | #127 of 137 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.8% | #1,259 of 1,414 | #75 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.8% | #566 of 937 | #66 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
469
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 477
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 469 | 35.9 | 13.1:1 | 35% (163) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 39.8 | 12.2:1 | 32% (153) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 37 | 12.8:1 | 34% (161) |
| 2020-21 | 477 | 36 | 13.3:1 | 18% (84) |
| 2017-18 | 526 | 37.2 | 14.1:1 | 25% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 542 | 37 | 14.7:1 | 26% (143) |
| 2010-11 | 505 | 35 | 14.4:1 | 38% (191) |
| 2000-01 | 453 | 27 | 16.8:1 | 38% (173) |
| 1990-91 | 477 | 33 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Root Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (526 to 469); teachers down 4% (37.2 to 35.9).
About Root Elementary
Root Elementary is one of the public schools in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is a mid-sized elementary school. There are 469 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
District-wide, Wake County Schools has 198 schools and 163,176 students.
More than half of the students at Root Elementary are White (66%). The rest of enrollment is 17% Hispanic and 14% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Root Elementary scores 52%.
There are about 13.1 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Root Elementary, which has 35.9. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in North Carolina is 14.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Root Elementary is about 35%.
Root Elementary is 1.2 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (69.4% versus 68.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in North Carolina.
Census data for Wake County show median household income comes to about $105,768, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 237 public schools in the county, enrolling about 184,790, Root Elementary among them.
A public school about 0.9 miles away, Oberlin Middle, is the closest to Root Elementary. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Root Elementary at 3rd of 9.
Root Elementary falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Root Elementary had 477 students in 2020-21 and 469 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
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Wake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,178,653
Census ACS
Median income
$105,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
237
184,790 students
Quick facts
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Other Root Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Root Elementary. Root Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFAYETTEVILLE, AR · 445 students
Nearby schools
- Oberlin Middle0.9 mi · 1,049
- Joyner Elementary1.2 mi · 569
- Carroll Middle1.3 mi · 898
- Brooks Elementary1.3 mi · 471
- Douglas Elementary1.6 mi · 562
- Underwood Elementary1.6 mi · 405
Frequently asked questions
About Root ElementaryHow large is Root Elementary?
Root Elementary enrolls approximately 469 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Root Elementary serve?
Root Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Root Elementary have?
Root Elementary employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Root Elementary?
At Root Elementary, the student body is approximately 66% White, 17% Hispanic, 14% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Root Elementary?
Root Elementary is overseen by Wake County Schools in Wake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.