Wilburn Elementary

Wilburn Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in Raleigh, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 593 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Wilburn Elementary sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Wilburn Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 29% Black, 8% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Wilburn Elementary shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Wilburn Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wilburn Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 35.6%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Wake County put median household income runs about $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Wilburn Elementary is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Brentwood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilburn Elementary. On composite proficiency, Wilburn Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Wilburn Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 676 (now 593). Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 53% across the same window.

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