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Enrollment
550
Elementary
DISTRICT 594 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370472001895
Stough Elementary
4210 Edwards Mill Road, Raleigh, NC 27612 · (919) 881-4950 · Wake County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL550 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
183 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 | 13 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
66%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
Stough 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
69.6%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
71.9%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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
70.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.7%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Stough Elementary
Stough Elementary's state test result (70.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stough Elementary this school | 550 | 33.3% | 70.3% |
| Lincoln Heights Elementary Fuquay-Varina | 667 | 35.8% | 66.8% |
| Heritage Elementary Wake Forest | 634 | 30.4% | 72.3% |
| Hilburn Drive Academy Raleigh | 596 | 36.2% | 63.8% |
| Hunter Elementary Raleigh | 658 | 31.3% | 75.0% |
| EP Pearce Elementary Greensboro | 653 | 27.3% | 81.4% |
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 Stough Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #225 of 1,297 | #44 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #289 of 1,296 | #44 of 120 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #140 of 1,300 | #32 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 550 | #465 of 1,485 | #86 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #288 of 1,377 | #47 of 137 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.3% | #403 of 1,379 | #60 of 137 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.3% | #1,274 of 1,414 | #81 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +37.8% | #53 of 369 | #8 of 33 |
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
550
+97 (+21%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 555
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 550 | 41.4 | 13.3:1 | 33% (183) |
| 2023-24 | 540 | 43.5 | 12.4:1 | 31% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 507 | 41.5 | 12.2:1 | 32% (161) |
| 2020-21 | 453 | 36 | 12.6:1 | 27% (122) |
| 2017-18 | 399 | 35.2 | 11.3:1 | 38% (152) |
| 2015-16 | 541 | 42 | 12.9:1 | 49% (266) |
| 2010-11 | 576 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 45% (260) |
| 2000-01 | 601 | 32 | 18.8:1 | 24% (147) |
| 1990-91 | 555 | 44 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stough Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 38% (399 to 550); teachers up 18% (35.2 to 41.4).
About Stough Elementary
Stough Elementary is an elementary school located in Raleigh, North Carolina, in Wake County. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 550 students.
Stough Elementary is one of the 198 schools that make up Wake County Schools (163,176 students in total).
White students are the majority at Stough Elementary, with 52% of enrollment. The school is also 20% Black, 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 9% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 66%, meaning two students picked at random have a 66% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at Stough Elementary is 41.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.3:1. This ratio sits 1.6 below the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. About 33% of students, or 183, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 42% average for public schools in Wake County.
Stough Elementary is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 68% of North Carolina public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with North Carolina schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Stough Elementary's results are 1.6 points above predicted: 70.3% against 68.7%.
Among Wake County residents, the median household income is $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Stough Elementary is one of 237 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, York Elementary, is about 1.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Stough Elementary is 4th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has grown by 97 students since 2020-21, to 550.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in Wake County Schools
- Apex Friendship HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Enloe HighHigh · 2,643 students
- Panther Creek HighHigh · 2,609 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 2,498 students
- Apex HighHigh · 2,449 students
- Leesville Road HighHigh · 2,411 students
Other schools in Raleigh
- Enloe HighHigh · 2,643 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 2,498 students
- Leesville Road HighHigh · 2,411 students
- Athens Drive HighHigh · 2,156 students
- Needham Broughton HighHigh · 2,153 students
- Wakefield HighHigh · 2,065 students
Nearby schools
- York Elementary1.2 mi · 563
- Lacy Elementary1.6 mi · 695
- Martin Middle1.7 mi · 1,011
- Brooks Elementary2.2 mi · 471
- Jeffreys Grove Elementary2.3 mi · 543
- Root Elementary2.4 mi · 469
Frequently asked questions
About Stough ElementaryHow large is Stough Elementary?
Stough Elementary enrolls approximately 550 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Stough Elementary serve?
Stough Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Stough Elementary?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at Stough Elementary.
How diverse is Stough Elementary?
Stough Elementary reports a student body of 52% White, 10% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Stough Elementary?
Stough 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.