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Enrollment
1,412
Middle
DISTRICT 887 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370472003470
Apex Friendship Middle
7701 Humie Olive Rd, Apex, NC 27502 · (919) 694-8960 · Wake County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL1,412 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
111 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Based on published attendance-zone data from Wake County Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
83.0%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
91.0%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
87.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
About 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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Wake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,178,653
Census ACS
Median income
$105,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
237
184,790 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wake County Schools
- Apex Friendship HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Enloe HighHigh · 2,643 students
- Panther Creek HighHigh · 2,609 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 2,498 students
- Apex HighHigh · 2,449 students
- Leesville Road HighHigh · 2,411 students
Other schools in Apex
- Apex Friendship HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Apex HighHigh · 2,449 students
- Middle Creek HighHigh · 1,587 students
- The Math and Science Academy of ApexElementary · 1,080 students
- Olive Chapel ElementaryElementary · 1,066 students
- Salem MiddleMiddle · 1,057 students
Nearby schools
- Apex Friendship High0.2 mi · 2,748
- Apex Friendship Elementary0.4 mi · 896
- Woods Creek Elementary1.5 mi · 406
- Scotts Ridge Elementary2.0 mi · 869
- Olive Chapel Elementary2.5 mi · 1,066
- Apex Elementary3.2 mi · 550
Frequently asked questions
About Apex Friendship MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Apex Friendship Middle?
Apex Friendship Middle enrolls approximately 1,412 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Apex Friendship Middle serve?
Apex Friendship Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Apex Friendship Middle?
Approximately 19.3:1 students per teacher at Apex Friendship Middle.
How diverse is Apex Friendship Middle?
Apex Friendship Middle reports a student body of 60% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 21% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Apex Friendship Middle?
Apex Friendship Middle is overseen by Wake County Schools in Wake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.