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What's one thing Emma B Trask Middle gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
611
Middle
DISTRICT 736 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW HANOVER COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370333001372
Emma B Trask Middle
2900 N College Rd, Wilmington, NC 28405 · (910) 350-2142 · New Hanover County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL611 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of North Carolina public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
14.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
608 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 202 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 195 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 214 | 35% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
53.3%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
65.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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
58.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Emma B Trask Middle
Emma B Trask Middle's state test result (58.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emma B Trask Middle this school | 611 | 99.5% | 58.6% |
| Mount Holly Middle Mount Holly | 570 | 99.5% | 54.4% |
| Myrtle Grove Middle Wilmington | 600 | 99.0% | 62.9% |
| West Iredell Middle Statesville | 521 | 99.4% | 40.8% |
| Valley Springs Middle Arden | 654 | 99.5% | 58.7% |
| Woodington Middle Kinston | 584 | 99.5% | 48.3% |
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 Emma B Trask Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In New Hanover County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.6% | #140 of 463 | #5 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #87 of 461 | #4 of 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #174 of 463 | #6 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 611 | #217 of 478 | #6 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #115 of 456 | #2 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #135 of 456 | #2 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #87 of 472 | #2 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.5% | #97 of 300 | N/A |
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
611
-89 (-13%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 855
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 611 | 41.1 | 14.9:1 | 100% (608) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 43.2 | 15.1:1 | 100% (648) |
| 2022-23 | 673 | 47.6 | 14.1:1 | 100% (670) |
| 2020-21 | 700 | 46 | 15.2:1 | 100% (697) |
| 2017-18 | 732 | 46.5 | 15.8:1 | 38% (275) |
| 2015-16 | 726 | 44 | 16.5:1 | 43% (313) |
| 2010-11 | 697 | 43 | 16.2:1 | 42% (294) |
| 2000-01 | 968 | 54 | 17.9:1 | 33% (323) |
| 1990-91 | 855 | 51 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emma B Trask Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (732 to 611); teachers down 12% (46.5 to 41.1).
About Emma B Trask Middle
Emma B Trask Middle is a middle-grades school with a street address in Wilmington, North Carolina. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 611 students in 2024-25.
New Hanover County Schools is made up of 42 schools with 24,791 students in all.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Emma B Trask Middle is White, with 49% of students. Next come 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 77% White. The diversity index for Emma B Trask Middle is 67%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Emma B Trask Middle has 41.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.9:1. Middle schools in North Carolina have an average ratio of 15.9:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 100%. That rate is above the 67% average among public schools in New Hanover County.
Among North Carolina public middle schools, Emma B Trask Middle outscored 79%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Emma B Trask Middle's lunch-eligibility share in North Carolina is predicted to score 48.5%. Emma B Trask Middle scores 58.6%, 10.1 points above that line.
In the surrounding county, New Hanover County, the median household earns about $75,166 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. New Hanover County has 50 public schools with about 27,460 students, including Emma B Trask Middle.
Emsley A Laney High, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 63.5%; Emma B Trask Middle's is 58.6%, ranking 6th of 9.
NCES describes the area around Emma B Trask Middle as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 700 students in 2020-21 to 611 in 2024-25.
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New Hanover County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
235,229
Census ACS
Median income
$75,166
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
27,460 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in New Hanover County Schools
- Emsley A Laney HighHigh · 2,243 students
- John T Hoggard HighHigh · 2,082 students
- Eugene Ashley HighHigh · 1,893 students
- New Hanover HighHigh · 1,437 students
- Charles P Murray MiddleMiddle · 907 students
- Roland-Grise MiddleMiddle · 878 students
Other schools in Wilmington
- Emsley A Laney HighHigh · 2,243 students
- John T Hoggard HighHigh · 2,082 students
- Eugene Ashley HighHigh · 1,893 students
- New Hanover HighHigh · 1,437 students
- American Leadership Academy-CoastalCombined · 1,002 students
- Charles P Murray MiddleMiddle · 907 students
Nearby schools
- Emsley A Laney High0.2 mi · 2,243
- Murrayville Elementary1.3 mi · 573
- Wilmington Early College High1.5 mi · 270
- SEA-Tech2.2 mi · 227
- Wrightsboro Elementary2.7 mi · 502
- Dr Hubert Eaton Sr Elem3.3 mi · 461
Frequently asked questions
About Emma B Trask MiddleHow many students attend Emma B Trask Middle?
Emma B Trask Middle enrolls approximately 611 students in grades 06-08.
Is Emma B Trask Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Emma B Trask Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Emma B Trask Middle have?
Emma B Trask Middle employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Emma B Trask Middle?
Student demographics at Emma B Trask Middle are roughly 49% White, 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Emma B Trask Middle public or private?
Emma B Trask Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by New Hanover County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.