A L Stanback Middle

A L Stanback Middle operates as an average-sized middle-grades school in Hillsborough, North Carolina, overseen by Orange County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 648 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Across the 13 schools in Orange County Schools (6,982 students total), A L Stanback Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, A L Stanback Middle reports that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 37% White, 11% Black, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at A L Stanback Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, A L Stanback Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of -7.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,089, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A L Stanback Middle is one of 38 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 19,582 students).

Nearest neighbor: New Hope Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A L Stanback Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A L Stanback Middle has held roughly steady, going from 636 students in 2018 to 648 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 45% to 37%. Class-load math has rose: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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