Scotts Ridge Elementary

Scotts Ridge Elementary, a heavily attended elementary-level community in Apex, North Carolina, part of Wake County Schools, hosts 869 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Scotts Ridge Elementary sits 86% larger than that benchmark.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Scotts Ridge Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Scotts Ridge Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 22% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Wake County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Scotts Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.4%, the actual is 85.6%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Scotts Ridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Olive Chapel Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Scotts Ridge Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 79.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Scotts Ridge Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 834 (now 869). The White share of enrollment edged down from 83% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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