Carroll Middle

As a mid-sized 6-8 campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, Carroll Middle hosts 898 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Wake County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 48% bigger than typical.

Carroll Middle is one of 198 schools operated by Wake County Schools, a district that enrolls 163,176 students overall.

Demographically, Carroll Middle shows that 32% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 31% Black, 31% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Carroll Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.2%; this one delivers 45.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wake County put median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Carroll Middle is one campus in the mix.

Brooks Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carroll Middle. On composite proficiency, Carroll Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 1,006 students in 2018 compared to 898 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 39% to 32%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Carroll Middle community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.