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If you had an hour of school board time for Turner Creek Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
638
Elementary
DISTRICT 594 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370472002747
Turner Creek Elementary
6801 Turner Creek Road, Cary, NC 27519 · (919) 363-1391 · Wake County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL638 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
12.6:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
144 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 | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 120 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 119 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (96).
Student demographics
71%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
Turner Creek Elementary→Salem 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
69.8%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
69.8%
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 70 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
71.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.0%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Turner Creek Elementary
Turner Creek Elementary's state test result (71.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turner Creek Elementary this school | 638 | 22.6% | 71.9% |
| Salem Elementary Apex | 776 | 25.4% | 70.8% |
| Baucom Elementary Apex | 675 | 21.2% | 77.7% |
| McKee Road Elementary Charlotte | 534 | 27.3% | 86.1% |
| Polo Ridge Elementary Charlotte | 634 | 18.5% | 91.0% |
| South Lakes Elementary Fuquay-Varina | 774 | 25.5% | 65.8% |
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 Turner Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #190 of 1,297 | #38 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #335 of 1,296 | #52 of 120 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #138 of 1,300 | #30 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 638 | #286 of 1,485 | #58 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #164 of 1,377 | #26 of 137 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.0% | #137 of 1,379 | #18 of 137 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.6% | #1,340 of 1,414 | #105 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #606 of 937 | #70 of 91 |
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
638
-142 (-18%) vs 2020
-34% since 2010-11, when it was 968
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 638 | 50.5 | 12.6:1 | 23% (144) |
| 2023-24 | 739 | 54.3 | 13.6:1 | 22% (161) |
| 2022-23 | 673 | 47 | 14.3:1 | 20% (137) |
| 2020-21 | 780 | 49 | 15.9:1 | 15% (119) |
| 2017-18 | 706 | 47.8 | 14.8:1 | 20% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 694 | 47 | 14.8:1 | 20% (141) |
| 2010-11 | 968 | 57 | 17.0:1 | 16% (156) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Turner Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (706 to 638); teachers up 6% (47.8 to 50.5).
About Turner Creek Elementary
Turner Creek Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Cary, North Carolina, one of the schools in Wake County Schools. It had 638 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in North Carolina average about 467 students, which makes this school 37% larger than average.
The 198 schools in Wake County Schools enroll 163,176 students altogether, Turner Creek Elementary among them.
White students account for 44% of enrollment at Turner Creek Elementary, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 24% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 10% Black, and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 58% of Wake County residents are White. The diversity index for Turner Creek Elementary is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 50.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Turner Creek Elementary, giving a ratio of 12.6:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1, 2.2 more students per teacher than here. A total of 144 students, or 23%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Wake County averages 42%, higher than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Turner Creek Elementary lands at B+, ahead of 67% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Turner Creek Elementary would score about 72.0%. It scores 71.9%, within a point of that figure.
The county, Wake County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $105,768, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. The county's public schools total 237, with about 184,790 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Green Level High, is about 1.4 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Turner Creek Elementary is 7th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Turner Creek Elementary had a net loss of 142 students, or 18%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 15.9 to 12.6 over 4 years.
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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 Cary
- Panther Creek HighHigh · 2,609 students
- Green Hope HighHigh · 2,304 students
- Green Level HighHigh · 2,283 students
- Cary HighHigh · 2,044 students
- Triangle Math and Science AcademyCombined · 1,904 students
- Mills Park MiddleMiddle · 1,632 students
Nearby schools
- Green Level High1.4 mi · 2,283
- Davis Drive Middle1.4 mi · 992
- Davis Drive Elementary1.5 mi · 794
- Peak Charter Academy1.8 mi · 651
- Salem Elementary1.8 mi · 776
- Salem Middle1.8 mi · 1,057
Frequently asked questions
About Turner Creek ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Turner Creek Elementary?
Turner Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 638 students in grades PK-05.
Is Turner Creek Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Turner Creek Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Turner Creek Elementary have?
Turner Creek Elementary employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Turner Creek Elementary?
Student demographics at Turner Creek Elementary are roughly 44% White, 16% Hispanic, 10% Black, 24% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Turner Creek Elementary in?
Turner Creek Elementary is part of Wake County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.