Washington Elementary

Located at 1000 Fayetteville St, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Washington Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school that works with 514 students (grades K through 5), operated by Wake County Schools.

Washington Elementary is one of 198 schools operated by Wake County Schools, a district that teaches 163,176 students overall.

Demographically, Washington Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Asian (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Black, 18% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the income-and-resources front, Washington Elementary reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Washington Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Washington Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.1%, the actual is 69.6%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wake County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Washington Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Moore Square Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Washington Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 583 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment grew from 33% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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