Alston Ridge Middle

Alston Ridge Middle is one of the substantial 6-8 campuss in Cary, North Carolina, operated by Wake County Schools, with 1,494 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 147% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Alston Ridge Middle is one of 198 schools operated by Wake County Schools, a district that works with 163,176 students overall.

Demographically, Alston Ridge Middle reports that 49% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 22% White, 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 21% of students at Alston Ridge Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Alston Ridge Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.3%, the actual is 79.2%, a residual of +6.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Wake County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Alston Ridge Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Alston Ridge Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alston Ridge Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 74.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

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