Concord Middle

Concord Middle is a 6-8 campus of medium-sized scale in Concord, North Carolina, one of the schools within Cabarrus County Schools, hosting 583 students in grades 6 through 8.

Concord Middle is one of 44 schools operated by Cabarrus County Schools, a district that works with 35,568 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Concord Middle shows that 38% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% Black, 19% White, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Concord Middle has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cabarrus County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Concord Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.5%; actual is 26.3%, a gap of -22.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cabarrus County put the typical household earns roughly $89,005 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Cabarrus County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students), of which Concord Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: W M Irvin Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Concord Middle comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Concord Middle has edged down 36%, going from 905 students in 2018 to 583 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 36% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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