Wake Forest Elementary

Wake Forest Elementary is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Wake Forest, North Carolina, operated by Wake County Schools, with 444 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Wake Forest Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Wake Forest Elementary records 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wake Forest Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 57.6%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Wake Forest Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wake Forest High School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wake Forest Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 65.6%.

Wake Forest Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Wake Forest Elementary's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 477 (now 444). The Black share of enrollment declined from 32% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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