Connections Academy

Located at 1280 Buck Jones Rd, in Cary, North Carolina, Connections Academy is a very small middle school that caters to 8 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Wake County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Connections Academy sits 99% below that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Connections Academy lists that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 25% Black. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 0.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wake County put the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Connections Academy is one.

Wake STEM Early College High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Connections Academy.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Connections Academy's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 10 (now 8). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 60% to 25%.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Connections Academy typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.