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Buckhorn Creek Elementary

Buckhorn Creek Elementary is a elementary school in Wake County Schools, serving the Raleigh-Durham area (grades PK-5) with 761 students enrolled. Data sourced from NCES Common Core of Data.

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Level

Elementary

Grades

PK-5

Enrollment

761

Free/reduced lunch

25%

District

Wake County Schools

Charter / magnet

Public, zoned

NCES ID

370472003473

ZIP

27540

The short answer

Buckhorn Creek Elementary is a public elementary school in Wake County Schools, in the Raleigh-Durham area, serving grades PK-5, with 761 students enrolled, and 25% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch (NCES ID 370472003473, NCES CCD 2022-23). It sits in the K-12 pipeline for Holly Springs — the Raleigh-Durham neighborhoods a family would buy into for this school.

For families, the school itself is only half the question — the other half is what it costs to live in its attendance zone. Buckhorn Creek Elementary is part of Wake County Schools, and the neighborhoods that feed it carry their own home prices, commute realities, and sold-comp history. Use the links below to move from “is this a good school?” to “can we afford to buy into it, and is the whole K-12 pipeline strong?”

Neighborhood pipeline

Raleigh-Durham neighborhoods that feed into Buckhorn Creek Elementary

Buckhorn Creek Elementary appears in the K-12 pipeline for 1 neighborhood in our Raleigh-Durham family home-search guide. Each neighborhood page covers school pipelines, sold comps, commute reality, and family-fit verdicts.

Frequently asked

Buckhorn Creek Elementary family questions

What grades does Buckhorn Creek Elementary serve?

Buckhorn Creek Elementary is elementary school covering grades PK-5 in Wake County Schools, Raleigh-Durham. Enrollment is 761 students per the most recent NCES Common Core of Data.

What's the free/reduced-lunch rate at Buckhorn Creek Elementary?

25% of students at Buckhorn Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch per the NCES CCD 2022-23 dataset. This is one of the most-cited indicators of student-body economic mix.

Which Raleigh-Durham neighborhoods feed into Buckhorn Creek Elementary?

Buckhorn Creek Elementary appears in the K-12 pipeline for Holly Springs in our Raleigh-Durham family home-search guide.

Federal data sources

School data on this page is sourced from NCES CCD 2022-23 (US Department of Education / National Center for Education Statistics). Verify directly: