Walnut Creek Elementary

Located at 2600 Sunnybrook Rd, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Walnut Creek Elementary is a moderately sized primary school that teaches 574 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Wake County Schools. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Walnut Creek Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 38% Hispanic, 7% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Walnut Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of -15.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wake County) records that median household income runs about $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Walnut Creek Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is PreEminent Charter, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walnut Creek Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Walnut Creek Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.6%.

Walnut Creek Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walnut Creek Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 573 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 57% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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