Apex Friendship Middle

Apex Friendship Middle, a big middle school in Apex, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools, works with 1,412 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Apex Friendship Middle sits 133% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Apex Friendship Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Apex Friendship Middle logs that 60% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 21% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Apex Friendship Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Wake County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Apex Friendship Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.5%, the actual is 87.8%, a residual of +11.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wake County shows median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Apex Friendship Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Apex Friendship High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Apex Friendship Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Apex Friendship Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 80.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

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