Centennial Campus Middle

Located at 1900 Main Campus Drive, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Centennial Campus Middle is a small intermediate school that caters to 477 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Wake County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 21% smaller than typical.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Centennial Campus Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Centennial Campus Middle lists that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 31% Hispanic, 14% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Centennial Campus Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Centennial Campus Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Wake County reports that 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. Centennial Campus Middle is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

The closest other public school is Combs Elementary, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Centennial Campus Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 478 students in 2018 compared to 477 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 33% to 48%.

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