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Enrollment
855
Middle
DISTRICT 618 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001100399
Douglas Byrd Middle
1616 Ireland Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28304 · (910) 483-3101 · Cumberland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL855 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of North Carolina public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
840 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 293 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 273 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 289 | 34% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
34.2%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
27.0%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.8%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Douglas Byrd Middle
Douglas Byrd Middle's state test result (32.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Byrd Middle this school | 855 | 98.2% | 32.3% |
| Western Guilford Middle Greensboro | 731 | 99.6% | 43.3% |
| Northeast Guilford Middle McLeansville | 675 | 99.6% | 36.4% |
| Westover Middle Fayetteville | 768 | 98.0% | 46.3% |
| South View Middle Hope Mills | 614 | 99.5% | 43.1% |
| Zebulon Middle Zebulon | 772 | 99.6% | 44.0% |
Matched among North Carolina middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Douglas Byrd Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #416 of 463 | #16 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #428 of 461 | #16 of 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #395 of 463 | #15 of 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 855 | #79 of 478 | #4 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #49 of 456 | #1 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #166 of 456 | #9 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.2% | #295 of 472 | #5 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +49.2% | #7 of 143 | #1 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
855
+262 (+44%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 1,157
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 855 | 63.1 | 13.6:1 | 98% (840) |
| 2023-24 | 902 | 58 | 15.6:1 | 100% (899) |
| 2022-23 | 935 | 61.1 | 15.3:1 | 100% (932) |
| 2020-21 | 593 | 48 | 12.3:1 | 99% (590) |
| 2017-18 | 573 | 41.6 | 13.8:1 | 97% (557) |
| 2015-16 | 711 | 50 | 14.2:1 | 97% (687) |
| 2010-11 | 706 | 55 | 12.8:1 | 80% (563) |
| 2000-01 | 804 | 44 | 18.3:1 | 66% (532) |
| 1990-91 | 1,157 | 75 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Douglas Byrd Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 49% (573 to 855); teachers up 52% (41.6 to 63.1).
About Douglas Byrd Middle
Douglas Byrd Middle operates as a medium-sized middle-grades school in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The school had 855 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. The average among middle schools in North Carolina is roughly 605 students; this school is 41% larger than that.
In Cumberland County Schools, 86 schools enroll a combined 49,002 students.
Black students are the majority at Douglas Byrd Middle, with 52% of enrollment. It is also 19% Hispanic, 14% White, and 12% multiracial. Cumberland County's residents are about 38% Black, 15 points below the school's share. Douglas Byrd Middle's diversity index is 66%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 63.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.6 students per teacher. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in North Carolina. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 98%. Compared with the 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County, the school's rate is higher.
Douglas Byrd Middle is graded D by allk12, scoring above 9% of North Carolina public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Douglas Byrd Middle's lunch-eligibility share in North Carolina is predicted to score 48.8%. Douglas Byrd Middle scores 32.3%, 16.5 points below that line.
According to the American Community Survey, in Cumberland County, the median household income is $61,291, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. There are 89 public schools in Cumberland County, enrolling about 50,815 students in all.
Douglas Byrd High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. Within five miles of Douglas Byrd Middle, there are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Douglas Byrd Middle ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Douglas Byrd Middle falls in the City: Mid-size locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Douglas Byrd Middle reported 593 students in 2020-21 and 855 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.3:1 to 13.6:1 over the same years.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Fayetteville
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
- Westover HighHigh · 1,234 students
- Terry Sanford HighHigh · 1,201 students
Nearby schools
- Douglas Byrd High0.1 mi · 1,006
- J W Coon Elementary0.6 mi · 186
- William H Owen Elementary0.7 mi · 393
- Mary McArthur Elementary0.7 mi · 447
- Glendale Acres Elementary1.2 mi · 251
- Sherwood Park Elementary1.3 mi · 335
Frequently asked questions
About Douglas Byrd MiddleHow many students attend Douglas Byrd Middle?
Douglas Byrd Middle enrolls approximately 855 students in grades 06-08.
Is Douglas Byrd Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Douglas Byrd Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Douglas Byrd Middle?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at Douglas Byrd Middle.
What is the student diversity at Douglas Byrd Middle?
Student demographics at Douglas Byrd Middle are roughly 14% White, 19% Hispanic, 52% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Douglas Byrd Middle in?
Douglas Byrd Middle is part of Cumberland County Schools.
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