RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School

RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School is the only school in this area summary, and it serves grades K–8 as a single-site charter in Raleigh, NC, with an enrollment of 484 students and a free/reduced lunch rate of 97.73%.

Because this is the only school in the RISE Southeast Raleigh Charter School district, the most useful comparisons are against North Carolina state averages and the school’s own prior-year results. The standout finding is 8th-grade science, where proficiency reached 81.4% in 2025–2026 versus 68.6% statewide, and 67.4% versus 60.1% in the prior year. Seventh-grade reading also beat the state in both years. However, overall proficiency sits below the state average in most subjects. The combined EOG average across math, reading, and science was 51.4% in 2025–2026 and 51.3% in 2024–2025, while the state average climbed from 55.7% to 59.4% over the same period. The school’s ranking dropped from the 38th percentile (922 out of 1,490) in 2024–2025 to the 25th percentile (1,125 out of 1,492) in 2025–2026, which is explained more by statewide gains than by falling scores.

Notable grade-level gaps include 5th-grade science, which trailed the state by 18.6 points in 2025–2026, and reading proficiency that is weaker in grades 5 and 6. There are also large year-to-year swings, such as 3rd-grade math dropping from 70.6% to 50.0% and 6th-grade reading falling from 63.0% to 39.6%, while 8th-grade science jumped 14 points. Chronic absenteeism is 27.7% versus 24.2% statewide, yet the student-teacher ratio of 12.6:1 is relatively favorable. In short, this high-poverty charter shows real strengths in sciences and some reading grades, but its overall results are below the state and marked by uneven grade-level performance.