Underwood Elementary

Underwood Elementary, a moderately sized elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, operated by Wake County Schools, enrolls 405 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Underwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Underwood Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% Black, 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. Compared to Wake County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Underwood Elementary lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Wake County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, Underwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.7%, the actual is 72.7%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Underwood Elementary is one.

Raleigh Charter High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Underwood Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 65.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 496 students in 2018 compared to 405 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 66% to 59%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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