Harris Road Middle

Harris Road Middle is an intermediate school of sprawling scale in Concord, North Carolina, one of the schools within Cabarrus County Schools, educateing 1,368 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 126% above the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Cabarrus County Schools runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 35,568 students. Harris Road Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Harris Road Middle lists that the most-represented group is Asian (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% White, 15% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 6% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cabarrus County (around 56%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harris Road Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 88.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cabarrus County shows median household income runs about $89,005, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cabarrus County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students), of which Harris Road Middle is one.

W R Odell Primary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harris Road Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harris Road Middle at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 71.0%.

Harris Road Middle operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 1,301 students in 2018 compared to 1,368 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 8% to 43%.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Harris Road Middle typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.