Wakefield Elementary

Wakefield Elementary is a primary school of average-sized scale in Raleigh, North Carolina, operated by Wake County Schools, hosting 520 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; Wakefield Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wakefield Elementary logs that 35% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 31% Black, 27% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 63% 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 above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Wakefield Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.8%; this one delivers 53.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wake County) shows that 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. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Wakefield Elementary is one.

Wakefield Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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), Wakefield Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 59.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 642 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 39% to 27%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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