Hortons Creek Elementary
Cary, NC · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Hortons Creek Elementary is a elementary school in Cary, NC with 720 students enrolled and a 71% proficiency rate. Part of Wake County Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Hortons Creek Elementary is a elementary school located in Cary, North Carolina. The school serves 720 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 71% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
12% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Hortons Creek Elementary is part of the Wake County Schools in North Carolina.
How This School Compares
Hortons Creek Elementary has 720 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Wake County Schools (811 students). Its 71% proficiency rate is 17 percentage points above the district average of 54%. Compared to the North Carolina state average of 43%, the school performs 28 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hortons Creek Elementary has 720 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 71% of students at Hortons Creek Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Hortons Creek Elementary is part of the Wake County Schools in Cary, North Carolina. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.