Woods Creek Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Holly Springs, North Carolina, Woods Creek Elementary hosts 406 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Wake County Schools.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Woods Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Woods Creek Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

In terms of school funding signals, Woods Creek Elementary logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woods Creek Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.3%.

In the area at large, Wake County reports that median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Woods Creek Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Apex Friendship Middle, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woods Creek Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 80.9%.

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