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What's the most underrated thing about Yates Mill Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
538
Elementary
DISTRICT 594 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370472002561
Yates Mill Elementary
5993 Yates Mill Pond Road, Raleigh, NC 27606 · (919) 233-4244 · Wake County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL538 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
535 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from Wake County Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
50.2%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
61.8%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Yates Mill Elementary
Yates Mill Elementary's state test result (57.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yates Mill Elementary this school | 538 | 99.4% | 57.6% |
| Sardis Elementary Monroe | 529 | 98.1% | 63.5% |
| Hope Valley Elementary Durham | 539 | 99.4% | 44.8% |
| J Glenn Edwards Elementary Sanford | 587 | 99.5% | 52.2% |
| Avery's Creek Elementary Arden | 557 | 99.5% | 46.6% |
| Bailey Elementary Bailey | 580 | 99.5% | 58.4% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Yates Mill Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #577 of 1,297 | #79 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #568 of 1,296 | #76 of 120 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #611 of 1,300 | #84 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 538 | #502 of 1,485 | #93 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #383 of 1,377 | #63 of 137 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #353 of 1,379 | #53 of 137 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #225 of 1,414 | #15 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.1% | #379 of 937 | #49 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
538
+47 (+10%) vs 2020
+60% since 2000-01, when it was 337
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 538 | 39.4 | 13.7:1 | 99% (535) |
| 2023-24 | 533 | 37 | 14.4:1 | 58% (307) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 34 | 15.1:1 | 58% (295) |
| 2020-21 | 491 | 34 | 14.4:1 | 37% (180) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 43.7 | 14.7:1 | 57% (363) |
| 2015-16 | 649 | 43 | 15.1:1 | 55% (360) |
| 2010-11 | 570 | 37 | 15.4:1 | 40% (227) |
| 2000-01 | 337 | 21 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Yates Mill Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (641 to 538); teachers down 10% (43.7 to 39.4).
About Yates Mill Elementary
Yates Mill Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, under Wake County Schools. In all, 538 students attend the school in pre-K through 5.
Yates Mill Elementary is one of 198 schools in Wake County Schools, which enrolls 163,176 students in total.
At Yates Mill Elementary, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 43%. The remaining students are 34% White, 14% Black, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Among people living in Wake County, the Hispanic share is about 12%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 67%.
Yates Mill Elementary lists 39.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.7 students per teacher. The school's 13.7:1 compares with an average of 14.9:1 for elementary schools in North Carolina. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 99% of the student body. That is higher than the 42% average for public schools in Wake County.
Yates Mill Elementary holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 60% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Yates Mill Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of North Carolina schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 57.6%; the prediction is 48.5%.
Census data for Wake County show the median household earns about $105,768 a year, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Yates Mill Elementary, Wake County has 237 public schools.
Yates Mill Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Dillard Drive Middle, about 1.1 miles away. Within five miles of Yates Mill Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Yates Mill Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 538, compared with 491 in 2020-21.
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Wake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,178,653
Census ACS
Median income
$105,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
237
184,790 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wake County Schools
- Apex Friendship HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Enloe HighHigh · 2,643 students
- Panther Creek HighHigh · 2,609 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 2,498 students
- Apex HighHigh · 2,449 students
- Leesville Road HighHigh · 2,411 students
Other schools in Raleigh
- Enloe HighHigh · 2,643 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 2,498 students
- Leesville Road HighHigh · 2,411 students
- Athens Drive HighHigh · 2,156 students
- Needham Broughton HighHigh · 2,153 students
- Wakefield HighHigh · 2,065 students
Nearby schools
- Dillard Drive Middle1.1 mi · 977
- Dillard Drive Elementary1.1 mi · 648
- SCORE Academy1.3 mi · 584
- Crossroads FLEX1.3 mi · 139
- Wake STEM Early College High School1.4 mi · 294
- Connections Academy2.1 mi · 8
Frequently asked questions
About Yates Mill ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Yates Mill Elementary?
Yates Mill Elementary enrolls approximately 538 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Yates Mill Elementary serve?
Yates Mill Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Yates Mill Elementary have?
Yates Mill Elementary employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Yates Mill Elementary?
Student demographics at Yates Mill Elementary are roughly 34% White, 43% Hispanic, 14% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Yates Mill Elementary in?
Yates Mill Elementary is part of Wake County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.