Turner Creek Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in Cary, North Carolina, Turner Creek Elementary caters to 638 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Wake County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 37% bigger than the state mean of about 467.

Across the 198 schools in Wake County Schools (163,176 students total), Turner Creek Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Turner Creek Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Turner Creek Elementary has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Turner Creek Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wake County put the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Turner Creek Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Green Level High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Turner Creek Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 83.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 706 students in 2018 compared to 638 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 52% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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