Sycamore Creek Elementary

Sycamore Creek Elementary is one of the sizable primary schools in Raleigh, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools, with 778 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Sycamore Creek Elementary sits 67% larger than that benchmark.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; Sycamore Creek Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sycamore Creek Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 13% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 26% 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%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sycamore Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.0%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Sycamore Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pine Hollow Middle, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sycamore Creek Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sycamore Creek Elementary has decreased 35%, going from 1,194 students in 2018 to 778 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 79% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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