Dillard Drive Middle

Located at 5200 Dillard Drive, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Dillard Drive Middle is a big 6-8 campus that instructs 977 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Wake County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 61% larger than the state mean of about 605.

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

Demographically, Dillard Drive Middle lists that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 28% Hispanic, 25% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at Dillard Drive Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dillard Drive Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.4%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of -12.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wake County) shows that median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Dillard Drive Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Dillard Drive Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dillard Drive Middle at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 62.6%.

Dillard Drive Middle operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dillard Drive Middle has edged down 12%, going from 1,107 students in 2018 to 977 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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