Elementary · North Carolina
Highcroft Elementary
Highcroft Elementary, a public elementary school in Cary, North Carolina: grades pre-k–5, 698 students, 15.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Wake County Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 698
- Teachers (FTE)
- 44.5
- Students per teacher
- 15.7
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 68% of elementary schools in North Carolina
Median 14.7 · 1,461 schools compared
More students per teacher than 62% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 88% of elementary schools in North Carolina
Median 455 · 1,469 schools compared
Larger than 89% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Wake County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Wake County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 5415 Highcroft Drive, Cary, NC 27519
- Phone
- (919)460-3527
- City or town
- Cary
- County
- Wake County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-K–5 | 594 | 14.2 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 548 | 15.3 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 604 | 13.7 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 638 | 12.6 | |
| K–5 | 643 | 14.2 | |
| K–5 | 794 | 14.9 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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