East Millbrook Middle

Located at 3801 Spring Forest Rd, in Raleigh, North Carolina, East Millbrook Middle is an average-sized middle-grades school that caters to 731 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Wake County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 21% larger than the state mean of about 605.

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

Looking at the student body, East Millbrook Middle records that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 12% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, On paper, East Millbrook Middle has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at East Millbrook 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.

With demographic context factored in, East Millbrook Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.1%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Wake County put median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which East Millbrook Middle is one.

Raleigh Oak Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, East Millbrook Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Millbrook Middle has ticked down 7%, going from 789 students in 2018 to 731 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 52% to 44% over that span.

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