Timber Drive Elementary

Timber Drive Elementary operates as an intimate K-5 school in Garner, North Carolina, part of Wake County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 391 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Timber Drive Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Timber Drive Elementary logs that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 33% Black, 23% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Timber Drive Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 46.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Timber Drive Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Nearest neighbor: Vandora Springs Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Timber Drive Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Timber Drive Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Timber Drive Elementary has ticked down 32%, going from 577 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 47% to 35% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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